(1) Absinthe was distilled from an alcoholic steep of herbs.
(2) Hallucinations induced by absinthe, the popular liqueur of the period, may explain particular canvases but not the majority of 'high yellow' paintings.
(3) Through an absinthe haze, he insists that he is not part of the massacre, not party to the hate.
(4) There are also implications for the illness of Vincent van Gogh and the once popular, but now banned liqueur, called absinthe.
(5) James Joyce liked whiskey and Oscar Wilde quaffed absinthe, neither of which I would serve to myself in the bath unless I were reading Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar (and we all know how that ends).
(6) But the artist admitted to episodes of heavy drinking that were amply confirmed by colleagues and there is good evidence to indicate that addiction to absinthe exacerbated his illness.
(7) And we'll live on ice cream and blueberry truffles and pancakes dripping with molasses, washed down with tequila slammers and absinthe.
(8) (Midlake band members also own the Paschall speakeasy on the square and sometimes wield spoons and sugarcubes themselves for the absinthe preparation.)
(9) Just as the British Romantic artist and poet William Blake saw spirits and portrayed them, the late 19th-century symbolist Munch, abetted by loneliness, absinthe, magical experiments and by the spiritualist Christianity of his childhood, could slip into hallucinations.
(10) And all forms of alcohol, including absinthe, and vodka bongs.
(11) Camphor, alpha-pinene (the major component of turpentine), and thujone (a constituent in the liqueur called absinthe) produced an increase in porphyrin production in primary cultures of chick embryo liver cells.
(12) Yet upstairs at Andy’s is Paschall , a speakeasy whose absinthe glasses, antiques and bookcases are more Left Bank than Texas.
(13) His first painting submitted to the Paris Salon – and rejected – was of an absinthe drinker."
(14) If anything, Ronson's brand of creative collaboration recalls the absinthe-soaked salons of 1920s Paris – a cultural meeting point where artists can come and share ideas, "but," says Ronson in his dry mid-Atlantic drawl, "with less alcoholism".
(15) Modigliani's Reclining Nude fetches second-highest ever art auction price Read more Amedeo Modigliani was high on hashish, wrecked by absinthe, and desperately poor when he painted this hymn to lust in 1917-18.
(16) You expect, at a party hosted by the Erotic Review at which there is nothing to drink but absinthe, to end up redefining, with disturbing new nuances, the words 'guilt' and 'hangover'.
(17) Eight weeks later, on 23 December, the partnership came to a violent end when the pair quarrelled violently over, it is believed, Van Gogh spending the meagre household budget on prostitutes, and his refusal to stop drinking absinthe.
(18) The new streets came with trees and broad pavements along which café terraces sprang up, soon to be filled with artists and artisans enjoying “absinthe hour”.
(19) Bowl food is considered crass, though very much encouraged if you have an absinthe bar, or sooner or later all dignity will be gone.
(20) As well as 100 classic cocktails, listed alphabetically from an absinthe frappe to a zombie (all for under $14), it serves craft punches by the bowl for parties of four to six and small plates to soak up the alcohol.