But a bottle of Californian pinot noir with genetically enhanced flavours might be attractive to those with jaded palettes.
Instead there are books and pens, palettes and musical scores.This was the Age of Enlightenment which looked to the classical world for its symbols of order, reason and inspiration.
And many other programs, including word-processing packages Ulysses, Scrivener, WriteRoom, Dark Room and Writespace, now include a full-screen, no-distraction mode, with all unnecessary screen "furniture" (menus, palettes and so on) disabled or hidden.
Certainly, it suits revolutionary Moscow, where Vladimir Mayakovsky declared: "The streets shall be our brushes the squares our palettes!"Thanks to a compelling display by Lutz Becker, a curator and film maker, you walk into the great red hope of the Bolshevik revolution.
With his love of jazz, beautiful women and the grey palettes of post-war Britain, his witty, acerbic verse was a fine counterpoint to the more sentimental stuff produced by the London-born poet laureate, Sir John Betjeman.
Many word processors now have special full-screen modes, so that all unnecessary and distracting menus, palettes and so on are disabled or hidden; rather than fiddling with font sizes or checking e-mail, you are encouraged to get on with your writing.
Visually, the film recalls such cold mid-'70s thrillers as "The Conversation" or "Six Days of the Condor", with their laconic leading men, eerie scores and a colour palettes tending toward ecru, mustard and mud tones.
How did artists' palettes become so varied?
Although technically they are considered small objects, the large ceremonial palettes that appear around the beginning of the dynastic period represent the earliest religious relief sculptures, which would eventually find their place on the walls of temples built in stone, after the appearance of that medium.
The Hunters and Battlefield palettes show sophisticated two-dimensional representation.
The brilliant palettes and well-coordinated decors of this ballet by Léon Bakst, Alexandre Benois, and Nicholas Roerich were praised.
