Examples of bitumen in the following topics:
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- The light-sensitive material was a thin coating of bitumen, which was dissolved in white petroleum, applied to the surface of the plate and allowed to set before use.
- As a result, he had become disenchanted with silver compounds and turned his attention to bitumen and other light-sensitive organic substances.
- In partnership, Niépce and Louis Daguerre refined the bitumen process, substituting a more sensitive resin and a very different post-exposure treatment that yielded higher-quality and more easily viewed images.
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- Their emphasis on brilliance of color was a reaction to the excessive use of bitumen by earlier British artists .
- Bitumen produces unstable areas of muddy darkness, an effect the Pre-Raphaelites despised.
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- Great effort was put into modeling the heads, with wide-open eyes and bitumen-outlined irises.
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- The votive figure—made from alabaster, shell, black limestone, and bitumen—depicts a male worshiper of Enil, a powerful Mesopotamian god.