Word: watercolor
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...attributes a desolate aura to New York City. The barren landscape, spotted with ware-houses and train tracks, is disrupted by a bridge cutting diagonally across the picture. Unlike Stella's work, this painting leaves an impression that is neither dynamic nor determined. The muted colors created by applying watercolor over graphite reinforce the dull emptiness of the industrial scenery...
...twinkle she has. More than 28 years after Monroe's death from a drug overdose at 36, the star's legend has not just endured, it has prevailed. The tide of Monroe reminiscences and memorabilia flows on. Two weeks ago, a watercolor self-portrait by Monroe, painted in 1955, was displayed in a collection of artworks by 40 celebrities, assembled as a benefit for the American Cancer Society. A series of photos of Monroe at 19, taken by an Army photographer when the actress was working at an airplane factory in 1945, has been unearthed for an exhibition opening...
...Corbusier: A Marriage of Contours is an arresting exhibit, interesting for its unique context, as well as the quality of the artwork shown. The collection of drawings, in pastel, watercolor and pencil, was assembled by Le Corbusier himself with the goal of representing the breadth and spirit of his pictorial work. This goal is admirably realized and results in an exhibit which is both dynamic and unified. Almost without exception, each individual piece is worthy of close inspection. But Marriage of Contours also displays a temporal progression in the style of this vibrant artist. The exhibit is an education...
...seems that as Matisse's experience of Islamic art deepened, he tried to find equivalents for it, not only in his shapes but also in the substance of his paint. He worked increasingly in vaporous, quick washes thinned to watercolor transparency -- stains of extraordinary beauty that establish a constant field of light against which the passages of denser paint and linear drawing create, by subtle inflection, the illusion of solidity. These are, in part, Matisse's response to the textiles and ceramics he observed, in which - the color was dyed or glazed rather than opaquely painted...
...straightforward anecdote, his true strength is magic realism. In one tale a boy steps behind a movie screen to find rooms full of ectoplasmic actors coming to life for an audience of one; in another, a certain Mr. Porter runs into inclement weather and washes away like a watercolor in a rainstorm. Brilliant parodies, pastiches and comments on Alice in Wonderland, Sinbad and T.S. Eliot show how this gifted craftsman can stretch the boundaries of the form...