Word: watercolor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...depends on light in one way or another. Light rays mold the light and shadows on the surfaces of sculpture, reflect from pigments to give the eye its impression of form and color. But in traditional art, color is constant, not kinetic. And even the purest oil or watercolor pigments inevitably reflect not pure color, but a mixture of colors. The present-day luminist's dream of both movement and purity has had to await the 20th century, with the full development of the incandescent bulb, the fluorescent tube and the movie projector, which has made the sustained...
...Emil Nolde, though, a subject was to a painter "as the instrument he handles is to the musician." He said that "colors are my notes, which I use to form harmonizing or contrasting sounds and chords." He usually began a watercolor by working paint onto a wet piece of paper with a bit of cotton until the colors blended into one another. After the colors dried, he would study the composition to see what unexpected subjects it suggested to him, then outline them, a practice he referred to as "passive painting." Nolde said that "my best pictures always came...
Much of the most interesting American primitive art was done in watercolor. Some of the most representative -and also some of the best-is included in the traveling exhibition of "101 American Primitive Watercolors," collected by Edgar and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, which this week goes on view at the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts...
Even when he reached his 80s, and his failing strength kept him from large canvases, he continued his search for linear grace in watercolor. For one of his last works, Ingres returned to a favorite subject, a harem nude. His earlier versions had shown her against a background of bathing slave girls; his final version simplified the scene to what it had actually been, a studio pose. And though rendered in watercolor-a lesser medium than oil-The Bather is, if anything, finer than his youthful version of some 60 years before. It was the final proof of his lifetime...
...Although Lucy was with Roosevelt on the day he died in April 1945, at Warm Springs, Ga., the reports of the visit indicate that both she and Mrs. Elizabeth Shoumatoff, an artist who was doing a watercolor portrait of F.D.R. (and who had previously painted Lucy), left the house as soon as F.D.R. was stricken, and went to Aiken, S.C. They were not present when he died...