What Painting Is: How to Think about Oil Painting ... - Victoria Vesna

pine, 123
poppyseed, 123
precious, 181
pyreumatic, 128
stand, 22, 106
sunflower, 123
Oil of Dippel, 128
omega, 156
omnia in omnibus, 46, 48
one, 46–50
oppopanicis, 56
opus, 46
circulatorium, 178
ora, 37, 73
orange, 89
see also Ochre;
Realgar
orgasm, 164
Orpiment, 19
Osiris, 53
ostrich, belly of, 83
ouroboros, 48–9, 185
oxygen, 28, 60
paint
as blood, 137
as diarrhea, 70, 136–7
as glue, 107
as mucilage, 115
as salt, 105–7
as sap, 115
as water, 106
“buttery” or “creamy,” 139–40,
162
“thin” and “fat,” 104, 117, 140
see also oil, colors
painters
covered in paint, 147–8
gestures of, in museums, 97
tricks or secrets, 18
see also under individual names
painting
and incest, 156–7
and touch, 9, 96–7
INDEX 237
loss of techniques, 170–1
uniqueness of each, 41
see also Abstract
Expressionism;
Expressionism;
French Academy;
Impressionism;
Neo-Expressionism;
Postimpressionism;
Venetian painting
Paracelsus, 7, 55, 56, 59, 105, 108–
9, 150–1
paraffin, 127
parsley, 56
pastille process, 21
Payne’s Grey, 66
peacock’s tail, 66
pearls, 28
pelican, 134, 136, 161
penicillin, 69
percolation, 27
perfume, 70, 164
periodic table, 23, 64
Periodic Table, The, 64
Pernety, Antoine-Joseph, 179
perversion, 149–52
petra, 26
petroleum derivatives, 127
Pharut, 125
Philalethes, Eirenaeus, 185
philosopher’s stone, 1–2, 46, 62, 71,
81, 113, 152–4, 166, 181–91
as bodily secretion, 162–3
as a King, 198
as a winged genius, 191
reddish, 184
Philosophical Hand, 179
Philosophical King, 198
phlegm, 163–4, 179
as bodily fluid, 56
as distillate, 54
as paint, 115
phlegmatic humor, 61
phoenix, 184