Word: watercolor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...paint big. We haven't got the great land mass behind us. British art is emerging from limbo. It's individual, not a school." Painter Frost says: "The ruination of British art was the bloody Establishment. It was getting to be a bloody ladies' watercolor circle. Now that we've got some ordinary blokes in it, maybe we'll make a noise...
From Thursday through June 25 the Arts Festival will show exhibitions of the National Painting and National Watercolor Competitions; the invitational sculpture competition, the New England competition for architecture (including the Loeb Drama Center and the University's Center for World Religions), and the New England crafts and photography contests...
...Italian Renaissance tapestries have doubled; in the past two years, the price of French 18th century furniture has quadrupled. And for the housewife or hot-dog connoisseur who really cares, a niche a chien made for Mark Antoinette brought $15,375 in Paris, and a Cézanne watercolor, Panier de Fruits, went for $16,000 in New York...
...Marblehead by Maurice Prendergast. There was a Maine scene by Winslow Homer, and the brooding Houses of 'Squam Light, Cape Ann by Realist Edward Hopper. Finally, with the President's home ground taken care of, came a typical Jacqueline touch. In choosing two rare Italian scenes in watercolor by John Singer Sargent-Venice's La Dogana (Customs House) and Villa di Marlia-the First Lady explained that she had been to both places and that the villa was now owned by a friend of hers, the Countess Pecci-Blunt...
...Horrid, the Domestic. Many of the drawings are rooted in time through subject and costume. But some are amazingly modern, such as the watercolor of a gate near a 17th century Roman villa that is so filled with blinding light that its details are seen as in an overexposed photograph. It is rustic yet somehow eerie, the perfect expression of Artist Salvator Rosa, who confessed himself in search of an "extravagant mixture of the horrid and of the domestic, of the plain and of the precipice," which artists centuries later are still seeking...