Outline of Paints

How a painter paints

Drawing from the seminal definition of the principles of abstract art posed by Wassily Kandinsky in the early years of the twentieth century, and contextualizing that knowledge in contemporary cognitive metaphor theory (Lakoff & Johnson, 1999), the study attempts to arrive at an understanding of how cognitive structure emerges in pragmatic self-observation during the artistic process. Through a...

Forensic Examination of Car Paints

Durability Characteristics of Traffic Paints

At the annual Purdue Road School last year, a discussion of traffic paints was presented that included some general considerations, traffic-paint formulation, and traffic-paint re­ search.* Both the selection and the application of traffic paints were discussed. The research program on traffic paints of the Joint Highway Research Project was well under way at that time. The scope, purpose, and ...

Paints and Pigments

Paints have been manufactured since prehistoric times, but until recently they were highly expensive and thus were mainly used for artwork. It is only since the nineteenth century that houses have commonly been painted. Today paints are used for colouring and protecting many surfaces, including houses, cars, road markings and underground storage vessels. Each of these different applications req...

Paints and Coatings