Word: watercolor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Henrietta 's format is that of a typical children's book--31 pages, a short text and watercolor illustrations...
...graffiti art. You're asking, what is art?" It's true that this most unconventional (and original) of art forms forces us to reconsider what it is we value in visual art. If we need to argue over whether spray paint on a wall has the same merits as watercolor on a canvas, then we need to argue about art's very definition. And what is the definition? Is everything that is a visual form of expression a piece of art? The Trustman Gallery's video of graffiti sites around Boston and its interviews with graffiti writers will convince...
...they may put your homework up for auction. Robert Hunter, the high school art teacher of deceased Nirvana singer and enduring cult figure KURT COBAIN, recently consigned some of the musician's work to Christie's auction house for an upcoming sale. Among the items, a signed pencil and watercolor depiction of Michael Jackson and a graphite on paper rendering of then-President Ronald Reagan, below. The latter earned high marks from Hunter ("Kurt, your caricatures are outstanding. 10/10, A"). Christie's appraisers, apparently, favored the Jackson, assigning it a pre-sale estimate of $3,000 to $5,000, while...
...about the mouth!" In 1907, at the age of only 51, Sargent decided to give up doing "paughtraits," as he disparagingly called them--except for those commissions he couldn't refuse, like a 1917 portrait of John D. Rockefeller. Sargent wanted to travel more and do landscapes, especially in watercolor--and next only to Winslow Homer, he was the finest American watercolorist of his time...
...Frontpiece from the Divan of Hafiz is a wonderful representative of the charm this exhibit exudes. A watercolor with gold (yes, actual gold on the paper), the Frontpiececonsists of two elegant rectangles filled with gold twists, whirls and royal blue coloring that chase each other around in delicately ordered chaos, so finely patterned that the magnifying glasses provided will certainly be put to good use. The Frontpieceand other works like it are too free and graceful to the called geometric. Some secret structure hides in these patterns, like the order that supports musical harmony or poetry, and it never interferes...