Word: watercolor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...itself closed because it is being redone partially in white. There is a crèche with exquisite. 18th century Neapolitan figures in the East Room. Some 1,200 members of the White House staff who last week attended the annual staff Christmas party received prints of a watercolor by Pennsylvania Artist Edward Lehman showing the Red Room as it has recently been redecorated in cerise...
...Wyeth spell will be in full operation next week when Buffalo's Albright-Knox Art Gallery opens the largest (143 items) Wyeth exhibition ever held. In all his work, whether drawing, watercolor or tempera, there is no mistaking the impeccable technique, no ignoring the tense, if quiet, drama being played out within every frame. The America that Wyeth paints is only superficially the America of today; basically, it is a timeless place with timeless preoccupations. The long, long past of man and his earth is implicit in every Wyeth painting: his trees seem weighted by memories, his rooms...
...Wounded Soldier. In the 20 years before World War I, Pasternak developed into one of the most representative of Russian artists, painting in the typical Russian palette, which tends to emphasize a sort of oriental drug coloring of dusty blues and darkish reds. The 26 oil, tempera and watercolor paintings in the Munich show demonstrate that, though influenced by the early impressionists, his style could scarcely be called modern. He scorned his fellow Russian, Kandinsky, the first major abstractionist. In 1914, at the beginning of World War I, Pasternak drew a war poster showing a wounded soldier, which became immensely...
...smooth surface of his watercolors began to crumple into fragments, as if each scene he painted had jumped inside a prism. Everything was recognizable, but everything was also slightly out of place, tipped or distorted to give a sense of motion. Of his watercolors, Marin insisted: "Painting is like golf; the fewer the strokes I take, the better the picture." But for all its spontaneity and frugality, the watercolor sometimes seemed too delicate...
Paul Sandby (1725-1809) is commonly called "the father of British watercolor." While other artists favored foreign scenes, Sandby stuck close to home and thus won fame as the first artist "to introduce Englishmen to the beauties of their own country." In such paintings as Landscape, with Dragoons Galloping Along the Road, he keeps tight control of his watercolor, almost as if he were working in oil. Yet, though details are precisely recorded, the painting as a whole seems light and free. It was Sandby's gift that he could bathe the most ordinary scene in elegance...