Monday, February 4, 2013

Say It Ain't So, Picasso

Historians have long believed that Pablo Picasso produced some of his works with ordinary house paint.  Now, thanks to scientists at Argonne National Laboratory, there is proof.  Using a synchrotron light source capable of viewing the nano-scale structure of just about any material, Argonne scientists were able to match samples from Picasso's paintings to that manufactured by the French company Ripolin.  So...to all you Picasso owners...pretty cool huh!

3 comments:

  1. I knew it! Nice. Pollock's action painting too...

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  2. Man, now if I could just get my hands on some house paint and did some weird artwork I could become FAMOUS!

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  3. Yeah, and we could say we knew you:)

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