Rogier van der Weyden
Detail
Crucifixion. c.1440-1450. Oil on panel. Gemaldegalerie, Berlin, Germany.
Exhibition 'Rogier van der Weyden 1400|1464. De Passie van de Meester (The Passion of the Master)'
The exhibition presents the story of one of the greatest Flemish Primitives.
An innovator with international influence and a visual language that set the standard. Many leading museums in Europe and the US give pieces on loan.
Last days!
to 6 December 2009 included.
Leuven’s new museum,
Leopold Vanderkelenstraat 28
Leuven,Belgium, E.U.
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Sketching
Pieter Bruegel The Elder, detail, "
The Netherlandish Proverbs", Berlin.
(on wiki)
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Study of "a male head" by Leonardo
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"[Both] former and contemporary authors have produced written reports [about anatomy] in tormentingly long-winded and confused styles. However, through a concise portrayal from different perspectives, things are described definitively; and to avoid that my gift to mankind could be lost [to time], I teach the technique of reproducing things by printing." - Leonardo da Vinci
Possibly 16th Cent. Male head, Detail.
2003 Exhibition N.Y. on arcspace.com.
Affandi
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This fine watercolor will be sold in Melbourne on November 16th.
Buffalo in Rice Field
watercolour on paper
Signed and initialed lower left and in pencil lower right 53 x 74cm
Affandi (1907-1990; Cirebon, West Java) was a self-taught artist. Affandi became a member of the seminal collective, Lima Bandung Kelompok (Bandung five). From 1951-1956 he travelled throughout India and Europe, he taught painting and sculpture at the Akademi Seni Rupa Indonesia (ASRI, Indonesian Academy of Fine Arts) in Yogyakarta, Central Java. In 1973 The Museum Affandi was established on the grounds of his residence in Yogyakarta. Affandi's highly expressionistic and dynamic works have very thick applications of paint squeezed directly from the tube with color fields smeared by hand.
ASRI, the Academy of Fine Arts is the center of arts and Yogya (Yogyakarta) itself has given its name to an important school of modern painting in Indonesia, perhaps best personified by the famed Indonesian impressionist, the late Affandi.
On the main road between the airport and the city stands the
Affandi Museum (1907 - 1990) in a lush garden next to his peculiar private home on stilts.Affandi's grave (died in May 1990) lies in the backyard next to the museum.
Affandi's watercolors are highly sought-after.
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Watercolor in the Renaissance.
Hugo van der Goes (Ghent, ?c. 1440 – Oudergem, near Brussels, 1482 or 1483)
Madonna with angel 1480
Tempera on Canvas -
TüchleinNürnberg, Germany.
Hugo van der Goes was a Flemish painter. He was, along with Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, Hans Memling and Gerard David, one of the most important of the Early South-Netherlandish painters.
"Lexis art lover"* defines
Tüchlein as: A painting painted with an aqueous
medium, (gum/glue) on a finely woven linen support, which is glue sized and unprimed and left unvarnished after the painting was finished. Very little "Tüchlein" came to us because of their fragility.
The term ‘Tüchlein’ derives from a quotation in Albrecht Dürer’s diary (Dubois 1997). He made
this entry during his travels to the Low Countries in 1520-1521
“[…] I have sold a ‘Madonna’ picture painted on small canvas”/ “I have got 4 florins, 5 stivers for three small canvases ”/ “I have given the little Portuguese factor, Signor Francisco, my small canvas with the
small child […]”1(Fry 1913).
Another "Tüchlein" by Albrecht Dürer:
Tempera on Canvas -
TüchleinDetail, Nürnberg, Germany.
And
Andrea Mantegna (1431 - 1506)
Maria with the Sleeping Child.
c. 1465/70
Gemäldegalerie, Kunstforum, Berlin.
Un
Tüchlein est une peinture exécutée à la détrempe sur fine toile de lin non préparée.
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Marc Chagall
Russian watercolour and gouache on paper
54.6 x 68.6 cm
signed
This important watercolor will be sold in British Columbia on the 29 th of this month.
Marc Chagall was born on July 7, 1887, in Vitebsk, Russia, to a poor Jewish family that included ten children. In 1907 he moved to St. Petersburg, Russia, where he attended the school of the Imperial Society for the Protection of the Arts and studied briefly with famed Russian painter Leon Bakst (1866–1924).
Chagall occupied a unique place in world art. Even though at times he was slighly influenced by the contemporary developments in arts (as when he discovered cubism for example), throughout his long life he was an independent artist, often criticized for his lack of "realism" or for his lack of desire to explore non-objective art. The sources of his inspiration are found in his childhood.
Marc Chagall died in 1985 and was buried in France at Saint-Paul. Chagall was one of the 20th century's most important artists.
Né d'une famille juive hassidique du village juif de Pale dans l'empire russe, Chagall s'appelle à l'époque Móyshe Shagáll. Après une enfance heureuse en Bélarussie, Chagall s'installe à Paris en 1910. De retour en Russie, Il y reste de 1914 à 1922, fonde un musée et une école d'art et conçoit des décors de théâtre. Dans ses œuvres, Chagall représente souvent des sujets tirés de la Bible, de la mythologie et du folklore.
Important literature :
LASSAIGNE, Jacques.
Marc Chagall: Dessins et Aquarelles pour Le Ballet
by CHAGALL, Marc , 1969.
Berthold, Marc Chagall Roland,
Marc Chagall, Die Bibel: Gouachen, Aquarelle, Pastelle Und Zeichungen Aus Dem Nachlass Des Kunstlers , 1990
F V Meyer,
Marc Chagall. Leben und Werk. Köln 1961.
Copyright Heffel.
Aquarelsalon Mol, Belgium
Mol
’t Kristallijn - ’t Getouw
31ste Aquarelsalon – thema: Glas
Van 3 t/m 25 oktober 2009
Open vrijdag – zaterdag- zondag van 13 tot 18 u.
Last week-end!
And the
Prize Winner 2009:
"Close"
watercolor
by Liliane Goossens
Congratulations!
Van harte gefeliciteerd!
copyright 2009 AIB
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Nicholas Simmons
Mémoire de Septembre, watercolor
95 x 95 cm
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Nicholas Simmons was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA. He began painting in Sarasota, Florida (East coast) and studied with many well-known watercolorists, most notably Valfred Thelin and Barbara Nechis. He quickly developed a bold original style, and enjoyed much early success. Also an accomplished guitarist, he made music his first career, only painting occasional commissions. A few short years later, he has earned a reputation as one of the most exciting contemporary watermedia artists on the scene. In 2007, he won top prize at the National Watercolor Society 87th Annual Exhibtion. He lives in the Washington D.C. area with his wife Olga Ivanovna and daughter Larissa.
Some actual paintings of the artist.Nicholas Simmons will expose his famous watercolors in
Seneffe, Belgium together with 5 other professionals Xavier Swolfs (Bel), Marc Folly (Fr), Stéphane Heurion (Bel), Janine Gallizia (AUS) and Joseph Zbukvic (Aus).
Expo: “On the Waters Edge” 2009
Place: Le Centre d’Eau
Place Penne d'Agenais 13
7180 – Seneffe, Belgium
Dates : Expo: October 17, 2009 - November 1, 2009
Hours: 10:00 am – 6:00 pm.
Centre de l'Eau à Seneffe - Belgique
Du samedi 17 octobre au dimanche 1 novembre 2009
*****Official website of the artist.With thanks to the artist. Photographs: ©2009 Nicholas Simmons
Automn in the garden
hello ev'rybody!
(coming up soon)
"little daisy just waiting for the sun ..."
"madeliefje wachtend op wat zonneschijn ..."
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Ada Góth-Löwith
During a visit at Domburg and Veere, (The Netherlands) we had the opportunity to discover this beautiful watercolor of Ada Góth-Löwith. It is exposed in an exposition at the
Scottish Houses called : ‘
VEERSE JOFFERS’ or "YOUNG LADIES OF VEERE".
Scottish Houses? At the beginning of the 16th century, trade with Scotland became important to the Island of Walcheren. In 1541, after considerable effort, Veere was granted staple-rights to Scottish Wool for the Low Countries, encouraging Scottish merchants to establish themselves there on a permanent basis.
Another fine watercolor by Jemmy van Hoboken is exposed at Veere. Look at the composition of both young ladies ...
Until November 1st 2009.
Kaai 25/27,Veere, The Netherlands.
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From Flanders
Very last day!MOMA, NEW YORK.
"The skulls, which appear early on in his work, are more than momento mori. On the beach, where over 130,000 Flemish were massacred by the Spanish in the 17th Century, skulls were as common as driftwood." DAWN-MICHELLE BAUDE on
artcritical.comExpo: du 20/10/2009 jusqu'au 04/02/2010, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France.
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William Percy French
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This fine watercolor will be sold in Dublin, Ireland on September 28th.
Kenmare Bay seen from Derrynane, 1903. signed and dated lower left; , watercolor 42cm. x 55cm.
William Percy French was born on May 1, 1854 near Roscommon, Ireland, he graduated from college as an engineer. French wrote numerous songs and painted, which he considered his true talent.
Bog plants, heathers and wetlands, flights of birds, ever-changing skies from dawn to dusk reflected in watery land recur - but, like Paul Henry, rarely did the artist include humans, their intrusive incursions into the wild yet familiar visions of the West of Ireland he knew and loved so well, or even, as in this case, any familiar Kerry landmarks.
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Caspar David Friedrich
Watercolor, detail.
"Torruine bei Meissen", 1824.
Musée d'Angers, France. (17,9 cm x 11,7 cm)
Caspar David Friedrich, born in Greifswald, a port on the Baltic Sea, can be regarded as the foremost German Romantic painter.
He travelled throughout northern Europe and made detailed sketches of its terrain, but his paintings contain elements of different settings in wholly imagined scenes.
After studying in Copenhagen, Friedrich left his home, Greifswald, for Dresden, the art capital of Europe in the nineteenth century. He specialised in sepia, watercolors, and topographical drawings, turning to oils by 1808.
He met Goethe in 1805 when he won a prize for two drawings in a competition sponsored by the poet.
"The pure, frank sentiments we hold in our hearts are the only truthful sources of art. A painting which does not take its inspiration from the heart is nothing more than futile juggling. All authentic art is conceived at a sacred moment and nourished in a blessed hour; an inner impulse creates it, often without the artist being aware of it."
The Sea of Ice (German: Das Eismeer), also called The Wreck of Hope (German: Die gescheiterte Hoffnung), oil on canvas, of 1823-1824.
(96.7 cm × 126.9 cm)
Kunsthalle Hamburg, Germany.Literature:
Börsch-Supan, Helmut; Jähnig, Karl Wilhelm,
Caspar David Friedrich: Gemalde, Druckgraphik und bildmaßige Zeichnungen.
Werner Hofmann,
Caspar David Friedrich.
Gottfried Riemann,
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Farshid Mesghali
Farshid Mesghali was born in Isfahan, on July, 1943. He studied painting at Tehran University and he began his professional career as a graphic designer and illustrator in 1964. He was one of the founders of the Institute for Intellectual Development of Children and Youth (IIDCY), where many graphic designers of later periods were trained and started their creative careers.
During years 1970-1978 he made e.a. illustrations for children books for this institute. In 1979 he moved to Paris. In 1986 he moved to Southern California, USA. He opened his graphic design studio, Desktop Studio in Los Angeles. Again he is working on a few sculptures and installation projects in his studio in Tehran.
Graphic work.
Leslie Worth
"Fire at the docks" by Leslie Worth.
His visionary approach made him one of Brtain's finest watercolour artists.(The Guardian August 6th, p. 28)
copyright "The Guardian"
Leslie Worth was born in Bideford, Devon, 1923.
He has long been regarded as one of the most outstanding watercolourists of his generation. In 1992 he was elected by his peers as President of the Royal Watercolour Society. This illustrated appraisal of Worth's art includes his scenes of China, Australia and North America.
Leslie Worth died last month on the 21st of July.
He is survived by Jane and his four children.
Salliann Putman made this tribute:
"In my opinion Leslie Worth was simply the best watercolour painter in the country if not the world. His integrity and dedication to his work were second to none. He was an intellectual of the highest order and this spilled over into his work. At the same time he had a great sense of humour. And with such qualities he remained a very modest man." Literature:
The paintings of Leslie Worth
By Michael Spender
Leslie Charles Worth R.W.S. (1923-) watercolour
`The Moon Rising` signed and dated `79 16.5 x 22.5in.
Will be sold in East Sussex, UK on 2 September 2009.
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Wassily Kandinsky
Cette grande rétrospective de l'œuvre d'une des figures majeures du XXème siècle, Vassily Kandinsky, est proposée conjointement par le Centre Pompidou, la Städtische Galerie in Lenbachhaus de Munich et le Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum de New York, qui détiennent les plus importants fonds d'œuvres de l'artiste.
jusqu'au 10 août 2009
A ne pas manquer!
Centre Pompidou75191 Paris cedex 04
France
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"To the Unknown Voice" 1916
Watercolor and ink on paper 23.6 × 15.8 cm (9.32 × 6.21 in)
Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.
source: wikimedia, public domain
"The true work of art is born from the 'artist': a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it acquires an autonomous life, becomes a personality, an independent subject, animated with a spiritual breath, the living subject of a real existence of being."Wassily Kandinsky
Born in Moscow in 1866, Kandinsky spent his early childhood in Odessa.
In 1886 he began to study law and economics at the University of Moscow, but he continued to have unusual feelings about colour as he contemplated the city's vivid architecture. He exhibited with the vanguard groups and in the big nonacademic shows that had sprung up all over Europe—with the Munich Phalanx group (of which he became president in 1902), with the Berlin Sezession group, in the Paris Salon d'Automne and Salon des Indépendants, and with the Dresden group that called itself Die Brücke (“The Bridge”).Wassily Kandinsky died in his adopted home-country France on 13 December 1944.
More BioImportant literature: Grohmann, Will; Wassily Kandinsky,KANDINSKY,Paris, Cahiers d'Art, 1930.
Roethel, H. K. und J. K. Benjamin, Kandinsky. Werkverzeichnis der Ölgemälde 1916-1944. München, C. H. Beck 1984.
Roethel, Hans Konrad, Kandinsky: Das graphische Werk. DuMont-Schauberg, (1970).
Vivian Endicott Barnett, Kandinsky Watercolours: Catalogue Raisonne : 1900-1944 Cornell University Press.
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Maurice Estève
The Cicada, 1956.
Maurice Estève was born in Culan, France on May 2, 1904, he died there at 97 years old. He became very young passionately fond of art, drawing regularly while he was even not 8 years old!
Estève was largely self-educated, having only attended the free studio of the Colarossi academy in 1924, where he tried to constructively implement of his motifs according to the model of Georges Braques and Fernand Légers, thus creating a kind of
Cubist Fauvism.
His art met consecration in 1987, with a museum created in the
Hotel des Echevins (Bourges), in which 125 works he donated two years earlier were exposed. He is highly respected as one of the biggest painters of our time, Estève was a draftsman and a great watercolourist, an etcher, an exceptional lithographer (his first work was made in 1955 at Mourlot’s workshop); collages also constituted separate creations.
"Je ressens plus intensément la nature dans laquelle je suis plongé par les formes que je redécouvre que dans l'univers dans lequel je vis."
Literature:
Maurice Estève. Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint établi par Monique Prudhomme-Estève.
Maurice Estève. L'oeuvre gravé, catalogue raisonné. Introduction par - introduktion på dansk af - introduction in English by Dora Vallier.
Muller, Joseph émile, Maurice Estève, Methuen & Co 1962.
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Plein air sketching ...
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NEW! NOUVEAU!
Les Editions françaises Megastar publient les magazines d'art "Pratique des Arts" et "Vernissages". Aujourd'hui un magazine haut de gamme sur l'aquarelle vient d'être lancé. Le nom du nouveau-né :
" L'ART DE L'AQUARELLE "
Le but de ce magazine est de tenter de montrer l'étendue et la variété de l'aquarelle et de lui donner l'importance qu'elle mérite. L'essentiel du magazine sera constitué de reportages sur des artistes, que vous connaissez certainement: Marc Folly, Ewa Karpinska, par exemple, bien connus du public français, mais aussi d'autres artistes moins connus en France, et également des incursions dans le passé avec des articles sur les maîtres anciens (Nolde, Moreau, etc..)
Dans ce numéro entre autre: grand entretien Ewa Karpinska.
A suivre!
To-day
Les éditions françaises Megastar has given birth to a brand-new magazine on watercolors, its name : "L'ART DE L'AQUARELLE"
EDITIONS MEGASTARRue Du Cerisier Noir
86530 Naintré, FRANCE (EU)
Tel: +33 5 49 90 28 30
Festival de l'Aquarelle
Ewa Karpińska, watercolor.
Festival de l' Aquarelle.Exposition of watercolors by Ewa and Janine Gallizia.
Until the Sunday the 28th of June, in
Saint-Cyr-Sur-Mer, France (EU).
12, Boulevard Jean Jaurès.
Every day from 9 to 12 am and from 2 to 6 pm.
Not open on Tuesday.
Highly recommended!
See also our earlier post.- - E.& O. E. ---
Constantine Somov
"Fireworks" signed and dated 1927.
Watercolour and pencil on paper, 9 by 6.5 cm.
This magnificent watercolor will be sold in London on the 11th of June.
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Constantin Andreevich Somov was born in St. Petersburg on November 30, 1869 into the family of the senior curator at the Hermitage, artist and art historian, Andrei Ivanovich Somov and his wife, Nadezhda Constantinovna, an excellent musician.
He studied at the Imperial Academy under Ilya Repin; inspired by Watteau and Fragonard, then he joined three friends in using watercolor and gouache to do illustrations for periodicals.
In 1913 Somov became an Academician, and in 1918 a professor of the Art College.
Following the Russian Revolution, he emigrated to the United States, and moved to Paris. He was buried at the
Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Cemetery.
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Slava Korobeynikov
Watercolor, signed and dated 2008, (54,5 cm x 59,5 cm)
private collection
copyright © 2009 Slava Korobeynikov
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Slava Korobeynikov was born in 1968 in Chelyabinsk (Russia).
Slava (Mitsjeslav) graduated at the Repin Institute at Sint-Peterburg Academy of Arts under Vetrogonski in 1998. He is a artist in transparant watercolor and he is also drawing important strips. Works of Slava are in Russian museums and in several private collections. Workshops and exhibitions were held in Russia, Belgium, China, France and Germany etc.
Slava lives and works in St-Petersburg.
клан, graphic work
copyright © 2009 Slava Korobeynikov
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«He is the master of the cosmic light that leads us into another world» Harold van de Perre.
Official websiteWith thanks to the artist. / Photo: Slava Korobeynikov.
John Singer Sargent
Gondoliers' Siesta, 1905, watercolor on paper, 14 x 20(35.6 x 50.8)
The "Sargent’s Venice" exhibition was on view at the Adelson Galleries in New York in 2007 and then travelled to the Museo Correr in Venice.
John Singer Sargent was born on Jan. 20, 1856 in Florence, to American parents and traveled extensively throughout Europe. His parents never settled back in America, not stepping foot in the States himself until right before his 21st birthday to retain his citizenship.
Between 1877 and 1925, he did over 900 oils and more than 2,000 watercolors, many of them painted in Venice and the Tyrol. These works are transparent, luminous, and brilliantly executed. Of these, fine collections are in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Brooklyn Museum.
For a considerable period of time, Sargent was the world's best-known and most highly paid portrait painter.
"Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend." 
Hot off the press...: Venetian figures and landscapes VOl. 6.
Throughout his career, and particularly in the period from 1898 to 1913, John Singer Sargent painted the spectacular architecture and scenes of everyday life in Venice, as he sat alongside the Grand Canal or in a gondola in the sleepy side canals. This lavishly illustrated book presents all the luminous masterworks that Sargent completed during that fertile 15-year period.
Upper photograph: Exhibition poster by the Museo Correr.
Welcome Africa
Via ClustrMaps (TM) we could see that we have now two visitors on our weblog from Africa. For us it is a great pleasure to say hello!
Hope to receive some info on watercolors made in this beautiful continent.
Thanks a lot.
Paul
Kees Verwey
Still live with grapes and a book
signed and dated '95
watercolor 37x55 cm
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This magnificent watercolor will be sold in Den haag, The Netherlands on May 13th.
Painter Kees Verwey (1900-1995) of Haarlem, one of the best portrait painters of the twentieth century, was able to capture character like no one else, creating hundreds of portraits throughout his long life. The paintings, watercolours and drawings have been selected from the collections of the Kees Verwey foundation and the Frans Hals Museum.
Verwey was 33 when he had his first exhibitions in Haarlem and The Hague. A mere three years later, the Gemeentemuseum was already buying his work.
“It is by the very limitation of the space to which one restricts oneself that one gains access to those regions which lie deeper (…) So a bowl, a jug or an egg can become (…) an unimaginable source of beauty.”Meer
Marc Folly
STAGE « IRIS AU PARC CHABRIERE »
à IRIGNY, France.
Samedi 9 mai et Dimanche 10 mai 2009
Le Parc Chabrière d’Oullins possède l’une des plus belles collections d’iris de la région. C’est dans ce cadre privilégié que je vous propose un stage d’aquarelle dont l’axe de travail sera la couleur et le sujet, la fleur d’iris.
Le week-end sera ponctué par de nombreuses études et démonstrations de techniques d’aquarelle, points forts de l'enseignement.
Highly recommended workshop in the neighbourhood of LYON, France.
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See also our former post on Marc Folly.
Peter Zumthor
The Pritzker Architecture Prize, the most prestigious honor in the field, will go this year to Peter Zumthor of Switzerland.
Peter Zumthor is a legendary figure among leading contemporary architects, both for the quality of his work and for his aura of mystery and inaccessibility. Born in 1943 in Basel, Zumthor studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule and at the Pratt Institute in New York but since graduating he has preferred to live and work in a ravishingly beautiful part of Switzerland near Chur in Canton Graubunden.
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Slideshow N.Y.T.Upper photograph: The Royal Academy of Arts
German School
German School, around 1600.
"Frogs, beetles and Insects."
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Graphite, bodycolor and watercolor, 20 cm x 26,5 cm.
We had the opportunity to discover this beautiful watercolor last week in an Antiques Fair in Brussels, Belgium .
We see e.a. at the left: the European Common Frog (Rana temporaria) and at the right: the Marsh Frog (Pelophylax ridibunda). Further at the lower left the Stag Beetle (Lucanus cervus) an the
common cockchafer (Melolontha melolontha) appearing every year in the month of May and at the right: different lacewings (Planipennia), finally some grasshoppers (Caelifera).
Latest frog discovery in the Andes (South America): mini frog 11mm.
F.A.Z. copyright
Le Salon du Dessin à Paris, France.
DU MERCREDI 25 AU LUNDI 30 MARS
Le Salon du Dessin est une manifestation unique reconnue comme étant l'événement le plus important dans le monde du dessin de collection.
La Collection Florence et Daniel Guerlain s'expose au Salon du Dessin.
Thomas Lerooy (°1981), "I can't find myself", 2008
Mixed media on paper,49 x 45 cm
Photo André Morain
Courtesy
Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels.
"Utilisant un langage figuratif apparemment limité Thomas Lerooy crée un univers aux possibilités infinies. Dans ses dessins et sculptures les symboles de la déchéance, de la fugacité et de la mort sont omniprésents. Les symboles de la mort nous rappellent les tableaux de la Vanité du 17 ième siècle, mais aussi l’humour grotesque et macabre de James Ensor, de Félicien Rops et d’Antoine Wiertz. La tête de mort, le motif par excellence est un symbole fort pour beaucoup mais il égale à la fois mystère, angoisse, égalité (nous sommes tous égaux dans la mort). "
"With his sculptures and drawings, Thomas Lerooy poses a number of essential questions regarding historically developed trends within the visual arts. He achieves this through an imaginative play with images which are inspired from, amongst other things, classical sculpture and 17th Century Vanitas style painting, as well as from illustrations in books, anatomical drawings, grotesque pictures , …"
Tanguy Eekhout
2007
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Jo Fox
David Gluck Award - "Games we play" by Jo Fox.
21st Century Watercolour 2009 Open Competition, London.
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This painting appeared to be a variation on collage. It was difficult to work out whether the paper went down without colour and then was painted or whether the collage involved the use of painted papers.
Jo Fox studied at Exeter and Croydon College of Art in Theatre Design. She has exhibited at the Royal Academy, The Battersea Contemporary Art Fairs, the Affordable Art Fairs, ArtLondon and the Islington Art Fair as well as in Glasgow and New York.
" The work builds into sections, resulting in the use of blocks or squares to divide or contain areas of the painting. Using materials such as fine plaster and paper of varying thickness, the layers are built up." (Jo Fox)
Artists were invited by the
"The Royal Watercolour Society" to submit works to this competition.
Exhibition 21st Century Watercolour 2009 Open Competition
Bankside Gallery48 Hopton Street
London
SE1 9JH
Still to Sun 15-Mar-2009.
Jo Fox exhibited with
Quantum Contemporary Art since 2003.
You can find more of her works here.
Thanks to Veronica, Bankside Gallery.
Copyright by the artist.
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Heinrich Campendonck
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Aquarell auf Papier, 108 mm x 128 mm; signed on the back "Campendonk".
(attributed to Campendonck)
Heinrich Campendonck was a German painter, who studied at the "Fachschule für Textilindustrie and Kunstgewerbe" in his native Krefeld (1905–9).
August Macke's influence, along with that of Robert and Sonia Delaunay, is evident in Campendonck's harmonious and transparent Fauvist color applications. He exhibited together with " The Blue Rider" around the year 1911.
After emigration in 1935 to Holland, he was a teacher at the "Art Academy" in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) and lived and worked there until his death in 1957.
Literature
A. Firmenich, Heinrich Campendonck: Leben und expressionistisches Werk, Recklinghausen, 1989.
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Jean-Michel Folon
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Design for " A LUCCA" exposition poster. Milano,Italy, 2003.
Jean-Michel Folon was born in the Brussels suburb of Uccle, Belgium in 1934. He began to study for a degree in architecture at the Institut Saint-Luc in Brussels, but dropped out and moved to Paris, where he quickly achieved success as an illustrator: his pastel-coloured watercolour images of “lost” figures in ethereal landscapes perfectly catching the mood of post-68 France.
The famous Belgian artist Jean-Michel Folon put more than five hundred works just twenty minutes outside of Brussels, in the farm of the castle of La Hulpe. This charming and characteristic building in the middle of the marvellous Solvay Park is home to more than forty years of creation.
In 2004 Folo focused on illustrations such as 'Alcohols and Calligrammes'
by Apollinaire, the complete oeuvre of Jacques Prévert,
Kafka's Methamorphosis, Albert Camus' 'Pluies de New-York', and Jean Giono's 'L'homme qui plantait des arbres', to name
but a few.
Jean-Michel Folon passed away October 2005.
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The Watercolours and Drawings Fair, London.
Nguyen Quang Minh (Vietnam)
"White Fandancers" ,1998.
Watercolor on rice paper h: 23.6 x w: 31.5 in / h: 59.9 x w: 80 cm
Photograph: Raquelle Azran, Vietnamese Contemporary Fine Art.
The artist was born in Hai Duong 1970, Vietnam. He graduated at the Hanoi Academy and he is a Fine Arts Lecturer Hanoi Music and Art Training College. Member Vietnamese Association of Fine Arts.
Viewing:
From 4 – 8 February 2009, the Fair will be held at "The Flower Cellars , in the heart of London's Covent Garden.
This event comprises two distinct sections:
The Watercolours & Drawings Fair features pictures from the 17th Century to the present day, all drawn by hand, in ink, pencil, crayon, chalk, pastel, charcoal, gouache, or watercolour.
Modern Works on Paper presents a wider range of original art on paper, including prints, photographs and posters, and Artist's Books, all from the 20th and 21st Centuries.
HRH The Prince of Wales visiting the FairThanks
Mr. Richard Hodgson, The Watercolours & Drawings Fair.
and
Mrs. Raquelle Azran, Vietnamese Contemporary Fine Art,
235 East 54th Street
New York, New York 10022 USA.
Info Fair, click here.and
Raquelle Azran - Vietnamese Contemporary Fine Art-
Dame Elizabeth Blackadder
Spring Flowers, Signed watercolour dated 1979, 48x60cm,
To be sold in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Elizabeth Blackadder was born in Falkirk in 1931 and studied at Edinburgh University and Edinburgh College of Art under William Gillies from 1949 to 1954.
Blackadder began featuring Flowers in her work prominently from the 1970s, working in watercolour, and to this day these works remain an ever present and striking element in her oeuvre. They display her lightness of touch, intriguing compositions of flowers and plants against the picture plane and a meticulous but beautiful observation of botanical detail.
'Japanese art… does not just reflect some casual work of style but a wholly different approach to the unity of creation, deriving ultimately from the philosophy of Zen. '
In 2001 she became the first woman in three hundred years to be made Her Majesty's painter and limner in Scotland. Elizabeth Blackadder was awarded an OBE in 1982 and lives and works in Edinburgh.
The Art Of Elizabeth Blackadder, Academy Of Royal Arts.
ISBN: 0810966492
Another fine watercolor conserved in Chichester, West Sussex.*
Lovis Corinth
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One of the most important paintings in German auctions in 2008.
Lovis Corinth, „Gartenwicken“, von 1923, Watercolor and bodycolor., 48 x 61 cm: fetched a record high price in Berlin, Germany.
Lovis Corinth, is one of the most important exponents of German Impressionism. His artistic education began at the Königsberg art academy under Professor Otto Günther. In 1880 he went to Munich, where he continued his studies under Franz von Defregger. In 1915 Corinth was elected president of the 'Sezession'. In 1917 he the 'Akademie der Künste' in Berlin awarded him the title of Professor.
Corinth tackled almost every style: mythology, religion, portraits and self-portraits, genre scenes and landscapes.
(Article in F.A.Z.)
CORINTH - LUCKHARDT, U.,
ICH LOVIS CORINTH DIE SELBSBILDNISSEHatje Cantz Verlag; Auflage: 1 (November 2004)
(ISBN-10: 3775715703 and ISBN-13: 978-3775715706)
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Lawrence Stephen Lowry
PEOPLE IN THE STREET
25.5 by 37.5cm.; 10 by 13¾in.
Laurence Stephen Lowry was born in Old Trafford, Manchester (UK), on November 1st, 1887. He moved to Pendlebury in Salford with his parents in 1909,
He joined Salford School of Art for evening classes in 1915, which is where his work on the matchstick figures developed.
'Had I not been lonely, none of my work would have happened.'
By the early 1930s he was exhibiting at the Royal Academy in London. He was awarded an honorary MA at Manchester University in 1945, and Doctor of Letters in 1961, elected to the Royal Academy in 1962, many other honours followed later.
Lowry painted very few watercolours during his career, finding the medium dried too rapidly to allow the re-working that he employed so successfully in his drawings. He seems to have experimented more frequently with them in the late 1950s.
'Coming from the Mill', 1930
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TWO LOWRY MASTERPIECES AT SOTHEBY’S ..and
a Ukulele Tribute *****
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Happy New Year - Gelukkig Nieuwjaar
Beste wensen aan alle blog bezoekers voor 2009!
Een goede gezondheid en veel aquarelplezier.
Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right.
(Oprah Winfrey)
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Walt Disney
Snow White holds a bluebird in her hands, detail. (18x23.5cm.)
Sale "popular culture & entertainment" of 4 December 2008
London, South Kensington
This gouache on trimmed celluloid was sold in London this month.
It was made in the Walt Disney Studios for the film "Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs" in the year 1937. It was applied to a Courvoisier airbrush background an it was sold by a Edinburgh company.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 American film based on the eponymous German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. It was the first full length animated feature to be produced by Walt Disney, and the first American animated feature film in movie history.
And they lived happily,
Even after.
(On youtube)Photograph: masterwatercolors.
Our very best Christmas wishes to all readers of our masterwatercolors weblog.
Paul Scorpio
London Souvenir.
JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER R.A.
VIEW OF GIVET, ON THE MEUSE, SOUTH OF DINANT (BELGIUM)
This recently discovered watercolour dates from 1839, it was sold for 115,250 GBP at Sotheby's London on December 4th.
watercolour and bodycolour with pen and red ink on blue paper
13.9 by 19.4 cm.
The sheet of blue paper used in this formerly unknown work has been examined by Peter Bower. He has established that it was made from two blue and one white rag with the addition of some hemp.
A sketch of this site is in the "from Givet, Mézières, Verdun, Metz, Luxemburg and Trèves Sketchbook" named: "The Meuse and Hills near Givet, 1839". (the Turner Bequest) Tate Collection.
The Emperor NAPOLEON BONAPARTE visited GIVET, the Meuse was in spite and english prisonners helped him to cross the river. NAPOLEON decided the fast construction of a bridge. The English prisonners were pardonned by the Emperor.
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William Crozier
William Crozier HRHA (b.1930) Wood by the Sea Watercolour, 56 x 75cm (22 x 29.5") Signed and dated 1990.
3rd of December 2008 Sale Dublin, Ireland.
In the course of next days this magnificent watercolor will be on the open market, Ireland.
Our earlier post on Crozier.
Paul Delvaux
Drawing and watercolour sold in Antwerp, October 2008.Click on the picture.Paul Delvaux was born September 23, 1897 in Antheit (Belgium). Paul followed architecture courses at the Academy of Brussels, but at the same time followed painting courses from Constant Montald. Delvaux, influenced by René Magritte and Giorgio de Chirico, created meticulous surreal compositions based on Renaissance ideas of perspective.In 1950, Paul Delvaux became professor at the "Ecole Nationale de la Cambre" in Brussels. In 1952 he created the fresco at the casino of Oostende. In 1955, Paul Delvaux received the Italian Reggio Emilia-award. " I have always wanted my colours to sing. " The watercolor photograph is property of Masterwatercolors
Abdur Rahman Chughtai
Chughtai, called “the watercolour man”, was born 1894 in Lahore, Pakistan and educated at the famous Mayo School of Art, studied under Abanindranath Tagore and Printmaking in London.
After the partition of the subcontinent in 1947, he came to be known as the national artist of Pakistan. Abdur Rehman Chughtai sought inspiration from the Mughal Miniature and the "Naqsh" or patterns of the Islamic decorative arts.
“ these humble creations are redolent of those old days when we were making efforts to live and dream with the brethren of this land...this background of my art should not be lost sight of."
“Some people may call my work old-fashioned but I am not.”
Acer palmatum "Matsu kaze"
To-day's fall color of our Japanese maple tree "Matsu Kaze".
The crimson color is of the same intensity as the "Shishio" in spring.
(Click to enlarge)
Henry Moore
Birmingham 7 November 2008 sale. Signed and dated 1959 watercolour on paper, modernist bird-like figure study in human form. 22" x 30". . Click on the picture to enlarge.
Henry Spencer Moore was born on July 30, 1898, in Castleford, Yorkshire. Despite an early desire to become a sculptor, Moore began his career as a teacher in Castleford. He was an important force in the English Surrealist movement.
Moore's style, combining figures and abstract forms, strongly influenced European sculpture in the years immediately after the Second World War. His main works include the large lying figures for the Unesco building in Paris and the Lincoln Art Center in New York.
"To know one thing, you must know the opposite."
Henry Moore
Henry Moore on the cover of "Apollo"
(APOLLO VOL. CXXVIII, No.320)
On Youtube (TM) Impression by David Beard
José Parlá
London, October 14th 2008 sale.
Salud a Rey, 2007, Acrylic and watercolour on paper, dated 2007 , signed in pencil lower left, 76cm x 110cm.
Born in Miami in 1973 José Parlá moved to Puerto Rico at a very early age before returning to Miami again when he was nine. He currently lives and works in New York.
“Evidence is left on walls by fleeting creators both aware of their message, or oblivious to what I may find in their signs. Still, they remain mostly unidentified.”
Artists websiteOn Youtube (TM)-
30 ste Aquarelsalon 2008 Mol- Belgium
30ème Salon d’Aquarelle 2008 à MOL – Belgique
30ed Watercolor Exhibition 2008 Mol - Belgium
Het Aquarelinstituut van België viert in oktober het 30-jarige bestaan van zijn aquarelsalons. Het Aquarelinstituut doet dit met een dubbeltentoonstelling in Socio-cultureel Centrum ’t Kristallijn en in de exporuimte van cc ’t Getouw.
van zaterdag 4 tem zondag 26 oktober 2008
open op vrijdagen, zaterdagen en zondagen van 13 tot 18u.
Location:
't Kristallijn, Blauwe Keidreef 3, 2400 Mol
't Getouw, Molenhoekstraat 2, 2400 Mol
Gratis toegang
Entrée gratuite
Free admittance
Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol was born Andrew Warhola in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1928. After his studies as a pictorial designer he moved to N.Y. In 1952, his first solo exhibition of drawings was held at Hugo Gallery, New York.
“During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.”
The Andy Warhol Museum opened in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in May 1994.
“If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it.”
This Colour offset lithograph (9” x 12” - 22.9 x 30.5 cm.) of an Andy Warhols "Watercolor set with brushes", was published to raise funds for the New York Association for the Blind (1982).
Photograph on top:
OSTERWOLD, TILMAN ET AL ,Andy Warhol – Watercolour,Hatje Cantz. 2000.
Published to coincide with the 2000 German showings in Hamburg, Berlin and Ravensburg of watercolours painted between 1952 and 1960.
RWS / Sunday Times Watercolour Competition.
NOW ON! Until Sunday.
At Bankside Gallery, London (near Tate Modern) you can visit the RWS / Sunday Times Watercolour event. At this year's exhibition you can see the works of 80 artists chosen from 1,200 entries. The result is a visual feast of dynamic and challenging paintings. (London Events)
1st Prize - Jennifer McRae David by the Window 2nd Prize - Cameron Galt Late Saturday Morning
Young Artist Prize - Peter Haslam-Fox Self Portrait with Tower
Penguin Classics Prize For Cover Art - David Firmstone The Persistence of Memory
10th September – 21st September 2008
the Gallery is open daily from 11am until 6pm.
Photograph Bankside Gallery
With thanks to Hannah.
Official Royal Watercolour Society Website UK
John Coburn
Red Desert Landscape, 2003 watercolour, 33 x 36 cm.
To be sold in New South Wales on Sept. 23rd.
John Coburn was born in Queensland in 1925. He studied at the National Art School and theEast Sydney Technical College, 1947. He made a carreer as a graphic designer and became a teacher at The National Art School in the sixties. He worked also in Paris where he designed tapestries including two curtains for the Sydney Opera House.
Literature:
AMADIO, NADINE. - John Coburn Paintings.
Roseville, NSW: Craftsman House, 1988.
Nicholas Pounder Bookseller
Emil Nolde
"Amaryllisblüten und Anemonen" detail
Watercolor on Japan paper (47 x 35 cm).
Emil Hassen was born in 1867 and was trained as a woodcutter in Nolde, Germany. He later took the name of his birthplace. In Munich, he studied painting and temporarily associated himself with the rebel art group, Die Brucke (The Bridge), established in 1905 in Dresden. It was Schmidt-Rottluff who saw some paintings Nolde was exhibiting in Dresden, and wrote inviting him to become a member of their group (1907).
"The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks."
In 1913 Nolde was offered a unique opportunity to expand his horizons. The German Colonial Office invited him to take part in an expedition to the German territories in the South Pacific.
In Switzerland, he met Paul Klee, the two men genuinely admired one another. Nolde once described Klee as 'a falcon soaring in the starry cosmos', and Klee reciprocated by calling him 'the mysterious hand of the lower region'.
In 1947 there were exhibitions in Kiel and Lubeck to celebrate his eightieth birthday, he died a year later.
"There is silver blue, sky blue and thunder blue. Every colour holds within it a soul, which makes me happy or repels me, and which acts as a stimulus. To a person who has no art in him, colours are colours, tones tones...and that is all. All their consequences for the human spirit, which range between heaven to hell, just go unnoticed." (quoted in Nolde-Forbidden Pictures (exhibition catalogue), Marlsborough Fine Art Ltd., London, 1970,p.9)
Het huis van de kunstenaar (The artists home) (2001, 200 pp)
With photographs Amsterdam University Press
Important Litterature:
Emil Nolde, Landschaften: Aquarelle und Zeichnungen. DuMont; 2., erw. und geanderte Ausg edition (1993).
Emil Nolde: unpainted pictures. - Watercolours - 1938-1945 - from the COLLECTION of the NOLDE-STIFTUNG SEEBULL. Hatje Cantz Verlag 2000.
More books on Nolde
The watercolor photograph is property of Masterwatercolors
See you soon!
"Bluttröpfchen" a rare orchid on our path... (Austria 2008)
Will be back first week of September with more important master watercolorists. All ideas and info (photographs, exhibitions etc.) are welcome, send it to our master watercolors headquarters via e-mail (see below).
Masterwatercolors and Google (TM):
"Google does not necessarily include every page of a site. Google applies PageRank considerations to every single page, not just to domains and top pages. ...
The irregular heaving and churning of the index ... is called the Google dance." (www.dummies.com)It seems that Google (TM) is now crawling our weblog through the internet, as he structure of our weblog has changed. Masterwatercolors is more visible now.
We komen terug begin september met meer beelden van "master" aquarellisten. Het is een boeiende ontdekkingstocht, mocht je wensen bij te dragen om dit weblog veder uit te bouwen, stuur dan je ideeën en info naar onderstaand e-mailadres. Er ligt alleszins nog een lange lijst van kunstenaars gereed... Bedankt voor uw interesse in ons weblog.
Great holidays!
Fijne vakantie!
Txs a lot.
Eric
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Francisco José de Goya
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Fuendetodos 1746-1828 Bordeaux)
Bajan riñendo (They go down quarrelling) or Vision de bajar riñendo (Vision: going down quarrelling)
brush and grey wash, scraping on a strong Dutch paper
9¼ x 5 5/8 in. (234 x 143 mm.)
“Two women are falling through the air: one, grinning broadly, grabs the hair of the other who screams in pain. It is hard to know if the two figures (is it a couple?) who are floating at the top (one is holding a tambourine) are embracing each other or are in the midst of a serious fight. The descent of the figures is emphasized by the movement of their clothing. Intense patches of black and grey tones along with overlaid rapid, free strokes and the scraping creating lighter areas also help to suggest the falling movement. The two figures at the top are completely covered by dark wash almost as if they are only shadows. In contrast, portions of the bodies of the two old women in the foreground are left blank, conveying an almost sculptural quality and giving the illusion that they are ready to spring from the page.”
(Juliet Wilson-Bareau in Christies’ catalogue, London, King Street 8 July 2008) Sold for $4.5 million.
De drie werken -naast "Bajar riñendo" ook "Constable Lampiños stitched into a dead horse" en "Repentance"- zijn afkomstig uit het schetsboek van Goya. Ze werden in 1877 samen met een honderdtal andere tekeningen in Parijs geveild. Sindsdien was het onduidelijk waar ze gebleven waren. De werken werden ontdekt in een Zwitserse privéverzameling.
A ne pas manquer
Mairie du 5ème à Paris:
5e exposition "Goya,
l'oeuvre gravée de Beaudelaire à Malraux"
à la salle des Fêtes du 5 Juillet au 14 Octobre.
Accès:
Mairie du 5e, salle des Fêtes
Mairie du 5e arrondissement
21 place du Panthéon
Tél. : 01 56 81 75 05
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Photographs Masterwatercolors 2008 copyright.
J.M.W. Turner at the Met N.Y.
J. M. W. Turner July 1, 2008–September 21, 2008
The Tisch Galleries, 2nd floor
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Metropolitan Museum
1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028
at 82nd St.
Accompanied by a catalogue (see photograph).
More pictures of this exhibition on the blog of James Gurney
AIB Watercolor Exhibition Belgium.
“Beeldig Le Paige”
Aquareltentoonstelling met AIB (kern)ledenselectie.
Beeldhouwwerken van diverse kunstenaars in de arboretumtuin.
Van 12 juli tot 10 augustus 2008
Herentals
Kasteel Le Paige
Nederrij 135
maandag – vrijdag 14 tot 17 uur
zaterdag – zondag 14 tot 18 uur
Cafetaria tijdens het weekend.
Watercolor exhibition with signature members of the AIB -
Aquarel Instituut België. (Watercolor Institute Belgium)
Sculptures of various artists in the garden.
Place:
Castle "Le Paige"
Herenthals, Belgium.
Photographs Masterwatercolors 2008 copyright.
Salon de l’Aquarelle en Limousin (France).
Le 13e Salon de l’Aquarelle en Limousin aura lieu du samedi 12 juillet au dimanche 10 août 2008 à Saint-Laurent-sur-Gorre (Haute-Vienne) au Château de Feuillade et à l’Espace Culturel Desoubsdanes; il est ouvert tous les jours, dimanche compris, de 14h à 19h, l’entrée est libre et accessible à tous publics.L'Américain Nicholas Simmons y présente plusieurs de ses oeuvres.
Mr. Simmons has five watercolors in this exhibition organized by Australian watercolorist Janine Gallizia. There are about 25 other European and Australian artists of note.More info.
Mark Tobey
Composition in Yellow and Bluewatercolour 25 x 35cm signed lower right "Tobey '50"
Click to enlarge.
Cambridge, 10 July 2008
Mark Tobey was born in 1890 and raised in the midwest of the USA, he had little art training. After moving to Seattle, Washington he delved into works of Arabian literature and teachings of East Asian philosophy and with his conversion led him to explore the representation of the spiritual in art.
"White lines in movement symbolize light as a unifying idea which flows through the compartmented units of life bringing a dynamic to men's minds, ever expanding their energies toward a larger relativity." (quoted in Palace of Legion of Honor catalog, 1951)
"I am accused often of too much experimentation, but what else should I do when all other factors of man are in the same condition? Shall any member of the body live independently of the rest? I thrust forward into space as science and the rest do. My activity is the same, therefore my end will be similar. “
"New seeds are no doubt being sown which mean new civilizations and, let us hope, cultures too. If I do anything important in painting some age will bring it forth and understand. One naturally looks forward to the time when absolutes will reign no more and all art will be seen as valid, with many thanks to Picasso and the brave men of European painting and to those who have fostered such ideas in this country. Shall we, as we view the increasingly darkening sky, not hope for a Byzantium, some spot to keep alight the cultural values? For what else shall we live?" (statement by the artist, Portland/SF/Detroit catalog, 1945-46)
Literature:
"Mark Tobey: The world of a Market"
University of Washington Press, Seattle (1964)
"Retrospective Mark Tobey : Exposition Palais Du Louvre"
Pavillon De Marsan 1961
Hans Hoffmann
"Monogrammiert und datiert oben Mitte: Hh (ligiert) 1582.
Feder, Silberstift und Aquarell auf Pergament, auf Bütten aufgezogen. 21,6 x 18,3 cm.
Links unten Stempel Gruenling, Wien (Lugt 1107); auf der Rückseite Stempel Kunsthalle Bremen.
Von der linken unteren Ecke bis zur Mitte des oberen Bildrandes eine Knickfalte." (Catalogue Lempertz)At Lempertz Auction House in Cologne, Germany, we had the opportunity to take this picture of Hans Hoffmann's (um 1545/1550 Nürnberg - 1591/1592 Prag ) "Hase" after A. Dürer in the month of May.The auction result was 580.000 euro.
The photo is property of masterwatercolors.
Eric Fischl
Born in New York City in 1948, Fischl began his studies at Phoenix Junior College and got his BFA in 1972 at California Institute of the Arts in Valencia,California. Some of Fischl's earlier works have a theme of adolescent sexuality and voyeurism. He aspires to a mode of figuration that is tense, dramatic and full of body. Fischl wants an overall look that is not too finished, that is consistently "imperfect”.
"The underbelly, carnie world of Ed Paschke and the hilarious sexual vulgarity of Jim Nutt were revelatory experiences for me."
“The not knowing causes such profound anxiety it, in turn, spawns creativity.”
(Eric Fischl)
“ … He does paint with a John Singer Sargentesque facility. With wide brushes, suavely muted colors and what seems to be a languid gestural ease, he captures complex patterns of artificial light, …” (Ken Johnson in The New York Times)
Click on the watercolor detail for Eric Fischl's website.
Upper picture:
"Eric Fischl" by C. Danto, R Enright and S. Martin, 2008.
Louis le Brocquy
Morning Mountain, Connemara Watercolour, 14 x 25cm, (5.5 x 9.8")
Signed and dated 1944.
May 28th in Dublin (Ireland)" ...under the influence of sunlight effects and the tidal influences on moon and sun, the very vast shapes of the mountains, appear transparent. It's a mirage but a miraculous one ..."'This self-taught artist has come to be recognised both at home and internationally as the foremost Irish painter of the 20th century.'
(The Irish Times)
'Le Brocquy belongs to a category of artists who have always existed - obsessed by figuration outside and on the other side of illustration - who are aware of the vast and potent possibilities of inventing ways by which fact and appearance can be reconjugated.'
(Francis Bacon)
Rare books about the artist:
Le Brocquy: The Irish Landscape
The Playboy of the Western World. Edited by Stanley Sultan, with brush drawings by Louis le Brocquy.
Synge, J.M.
The Gododdin. A version by Desmond O'Grady. Ink paintings by Louis Le Brocquy.
Louis Le Brocquy the Head Image
Le Brocquy, Pierre (ed.)
Watercolour study of Francis Bacon, by Louis le Brocquy (detail), sold in London (BBC News).He painted several portraits of Francis Bacon, a fellow artist and friend.
Official website of the artist.
Anne Redpath
FLOWERS IN A BLUE AND WHITE JUG
Literature:Redpath, Patrick Bourne, 1989, p.112
This watercolour by Anne Redpath will be sold in Edingburgh, Scotland on May 29th.
Redpath was born in Galashiels as a the daughter of a textile designer,
she studied from 1913 at Edinburgh College of Art .
After marrying an architect, James Beattie Michie (1891–1959), in 1920, she moved to France, where she lived until returning to Edinburgh in 1934. She became President of the Scottish Society of Women Artists (1944-7), and she was a member to the Royal Scottish Academy in 1947.
"Her paintings combine the sensual with the intellectual and the familiar with the exotic."
"one of Europe's finest artists. " (visitscotland.com)
Bibliography:
Anne Redpath: Memorial Exhibition (exh. cat., ed. T. Mullaly; ACGB, Scottish Committee, 1965
GEORGE BRUCE, Anne Redpath, Modern Scottish Painters.
BOURNE Patrick, Anne Redpath 1895-1965. Her life and work
Collections in Scotland
Walt Disney
Mickey Mouse, 1936, watercolour, from the Walt Disney
studio, stamped & signed Walt Disney.
The popular character of Walt Disney’s animated cartoons became arguably the most popular cartoon star in the world.
Will be sold on April 29th in Chiswick, London
Est: £500 to £1000
The creator of Mickey Mouse and founder of Disneyland and Walt Disney World was born in Chicago, Illinois, on December 5, 1901.
His worldwide popularity was based upon the ideas which his name represents: imagination, optimism and self-made success in the American tradition.
"I don't believe there is a challenge anywhere in the world that is more important to people everywhere than finding the solution to the problems of our cities. But where do we begin? Well, we're convinced we must start with the public need. And the need is not just for curing the old ills of old cities. We think the need is for starting from scratch on virgin land and building a community that will become a prototype for the future."
(Disney said.)
August Macke
Watercolor Verso inscribed "2 Männer mit Frau", 1913.
August Macke first trained under Corinth in Berlin Germany,before visiting Paris. After meeting Kandinsky and Marc in Munich around 1910, the three founded Der Blaue Reiter.
Macke used abstract values and significances solely to express his own personal feelings and ideas.
Macke was killed while serving in World War I.
"the one who gave colors the brightest and purest tone of us all…"
Franz Marc
De Duitse expressionist August Macke werd in 1887 geboren in Meschede in het Sauerland. Hij studeerde van 1904 tot 1906 aan de kunstacademie en de kunstnijverheidsschool. In Düsseldorf werkte Macke nadien aan decors voor het toneel.
In Parijs leerde Macke het impressionisme en het fauvisme kennen.
August Macke verhuisde naar Bonn, werd lid van de Neue Künstlervereinigung München waar hij bevriend raakte met de expressionist Franz Marc.
Het afgebeelde aquarel werd in Duitsland te koop aangeboden.
Sheryl Luxenburg
American Watercolor Society 141st Annual
International Exhibition APRIL 1-27, 2008
Salmagundi Club, 47 Fifth Avenue,
between 11th and 12th Streets
New York, NY 1-5 pm Daily Closed on Mondays Open 1-8pm Tuesdays
Gold medal by Sheryl Luxenburg "Impermanence".
It is our intention to publish a summary of the comments later on.
Peter Sculthorpe
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"Winter landscape with farmhouse", signed lower left “P. Sculthorpe”, 54” x 34”.
This magnificent watercolor by the American artist Peter Sculthorpe (American, b. 1948) will be sold in Pennsylvania on April 18th.
Peter Sculthorpe studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. His work includes watercolors, oils, etchings and graphite on paper. Peter Sculthorpe currently resides in Rockland, Delaware.
His paintings are noted for their dusky skies and beautiful stone buildings.
Modigliani et le primitivisme
Amedeo MODIGLIANI : " Cariatide ", watercolor.
Modigliani and Primitivism Exposition in Japan. 26 Mar—9 Jun 2008 More than 150 paintings and drawings, many of which have never before been seen in Japan, are assembled for this major retrospective of the work of Italian painter and sculptor Amadeo Modigliani (1884-1920).
After launching in Tokyo, the show travels next to the National Museum of Art, Osaka (1 July-15 September). National Art Center Tokyo 7-22-2 Roppongi, Minato-ku 106-8558 +81 (0)3 6812 9900
Copyrights National Art Center Tokyo
Olwen Jones
Royal Watercolour Society Spring Exhibition
Fri 14-Mar-2008 to Sun 13-Apr-2008
Mon-Sun 11am-6pm.A collection of works from RWS members. This exhibition features also a retrospective of paintings by Mrs. Olwen Jones RWS.
at: Royal Watercolour SocietyBankside Gallery 48 Hopton Street, London, SE1 9JH
0207 928 7521
"Vice President of the Royal Watercolour Society, Olwen Jones delights the eye and challenges the mind with familiar themes of light, reflection and architecture captured within striking botanical settings ..."
Photography:
'Reflections in Glass Houses: New Watercolours'
by OLWEN JONES
Bohun Gallery, Henley-on-Thames
Press release 2006
Robert Lenkiewicz
This fine “Lovers Meeting”, Project 5: Love and Mediocrity,
Watercolour, signed bottom right, 23 x 23cm,
will be sold in Devon in the month of april 2008.
This “Love and Mediocrity project” surveyed a wide range of assumptions and expectations about human relationships.
Robert Lenkiewicz was born in London in 1942 to parents who were Jewish refugees from Russia. He attended school at St Martins, Charing Cross Road before going to the Royal Academy, where he taught and lectured.
"The experimental lover finds that a constant sequence of breakdowns in relationships is supported by the softened edges of previous 'reflections' and 'refractions'.”
Robert Lenkiewicz hoped that his library and work could stay together and that it might serve the function of an entirely non-commercial museum for the sole purpose of the provocation of thought.
Literature:
Keith Nicholls, “Robert Lenkiewicz-The Artist And The Man”
Catalogue by Sothebys. “Paintings and drawings from the studio of the late Robert Lenkiewicz.”
By the artist: “Robert Lenkiewicz Paintings and Projects”
Editor: Mallett Francis.More
Sean Scully in Little Island
Untitled watercolour, signed and dated 2.8.88.
This fine watercolor (76.25 x 57.25 cm) (30 x 22.5 in) by Sean Scully will be sold in Little Island on March 3rd.
On February 28th Sotheby’s London will also sell fine artworks by the artist. More.
Sean Scully was born in Dublin in 1945. He grew up in London and works in New York and Barcelona.
There he studied art first at London's Croydon College of Art (now Croydon College) and later at Newcastle University and at Harvard University in the United States. He settled in New York City in 1975.
In 2002 Scully taught painting at the Munich 'Akademie der Bildenden Künste'.
Scully's work derived from the traditions of European early modernism (Mondrian and Matisse), in its ideals for harmony and spirituality, and American late modernism (Pollock and Rothko), in its urge for large, open-ended compositions, expressing personal inner states.
Paintings from 1998 to the present are constructed with rectangular bricklike forms, closely fitted and arranged in horizontal and vertical groupings as if in a wall, and characterized by broad, gestural brushstrokes, a wide range of luminous colors built up in layers, and varying degrees of overall light and darkness.
Important literature:
Conrad, Joseph. “Heart of Darkness. Etchings by Sean SCULLY.”
NY: Limited Editions Club, 1992. (Very rare.)
Scully, Sean. Essays by Arthur C. Danto et al.
“The color of time. The Photographs of Sean Scully.”
Scully Sean: “Paintings, Pastels, Watercolors, Photographs. “
Engl.: Gemalde, Pastell Aquarelle, Fotographie (Painting, Pastels, Photography)
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Winslow Homer
The Art Institute of Chicago presents Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light, on view February 16–May 10, 2008."Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light—which was organized by the Art Institute and will be shown exclusively in Chicago—is the largest exhibition of Homer’s watercolors to be presented in more than two decades. It features 25 rarely exhibited Homer watercolors from the Art Institute’s collection, … A total of 130 works tells the story of Homer’s development as an artist,… “
(artdaily.org)
A beautifully illustrated catalogue also accompanies the exhibition.
"Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light " (Art Institute of Chicago) (Hardcover)
By Martha Tedeschi et al.
About the artist:
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1836 Homer started an apprenticeship to the Boston commercial lithographer at the age of 19. By 1857 he had started an independent career, employed as a free-lance illustrator for magazines.
Homer had a stay in a fishing village in England from 1881 to 1882.
In order to find locations for his seascapes, Winslow Homer often took trips to such locations as Florida and the Caribbean.
Homer died in Prout's Neck on September 29, 1910.
Important Literature:
Lowell, James Russell, “The Courtin". Illustrated by Winslow Homer”
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company. 1874. First Edition thus with seven heliotypes after drawings by Winslow Homer.
Hendricks Gordon, “The Life and Works of Winslow Homer”. New York, Abrams, 1979. 440 illustrations, 68 in colour. A major monograph, the first complete checklist of published graphics, and works in the collections of the United States.
"I have had no master; and never shall have any..."
(W. Homer)
Watercolor, waterclour, aquarelle, aquarel, akwarel, aquarela
Vu Thu Hien
"Rhythms of the Cosmos"
Watercolour on handmade do paper.120 x 80 cm
Photograph:
Raquelle Azran Vietnamese Contemporary Fine Art, N.Y.
Vu Thu Hien was born near Hanoi in 1970, where she studied at the Hanoi Academy of Fine Arts. Hien paints in watercolors on a Vietnamese rice paper that varies in texture and thickness. She lives with her husband and two children.
Actually the artist is exposing her watercolour paintings in the
'Changing Identities', US Traveling Museum Exhibition until 2009
In the U.K. this fine watercolour works can be seen:
From 31 January – 3 February 2008, together with several thousand pictures that will be offered for sale, spanning every style and period from the 17th Century to Contemporary.
31 January - 3 February 2008,
The Royal Academy of Arts,
6 Burlington Gardens,
London, W1S 3EX.
Tel: +44 (0) 1798 861 815
info@worksonpaperfair.com
Allen Jones
Allen Jones Watercolors
We had the opportunity to visit the exhibition of Allan Jones' vibrant watercolours in London. It is still opened until: 17 February 2008 in
Expo in the Royal Academy of Arts, London.
Allen Jones has enjoyed international renown as a painter, sculptor and printmaker for over 40 years. Born in Southampton in 1937, he studied at Hornsey College of Art and the Royal College of Art.
“ working across these different media (Allan Jones is a painter, sculptor and printmaker since he came to prominence as a Pop artist in the 1960s.) constantly provides new technical challenges which in turn spark his creativity. “
New:
"Allen Jones: Works", by Andrew Lambirth and published by the Royal Academy of Arts will be available in the RA Shop. £29.95
Now also:
An American's Passion for British Art: Paul Mellon's Legacy
Until 27 Jan 2008
The Royal Academy of Arts presents an exhibition of major works from the Paul Mellon Collection, one of the greatest collectors of British art, at the Yale Center for British Art, London.
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Shanti Panchal
PANCHAYAT, 1985 Signed,
55cm x 38cm (21.5in x 15in)
This fine watercolour will be sold in London on January 10th.
Born in Gujerat, Shanti Panchal studied at the Sir JJ School of Art, Bombay, and later at the Byam Shaw School of Art, London. He has exhibited widely through the UK and India.
“Watercolour paintings were too limited to pretty flowers and sweet landscapes. It was a very frustrating experience. I was not prepared to accept the conventional limits of the medium.”
He won the 1991 National Portrait Gallery/BP Portrait Award, was Artist-in-Residence at the National Gallery, London in 1994, and was a 2003 nominee for the UK Asian Achievers Awards.
Tinged with a melancholic atmosphere, the work of Shanti Panchal consider universal themes such as hope, pain and anxiety.
“I use layers and layers of colour - layers and layers of life's experiences injecting into the very fibre of my existence, so ecstatic and at the same time so suicidal.”
The world is a stage where each one of us has a role to play. Here on this stage we are destined with a purpose. There is an entry and an exit.
Artists website.
Sir William Russell Flint
A fine watercolor of Sir William Russell Flint was sold in Edinburgh
Scotland in December. (32cm x 53c, signed.)
Regarded by many as the world's finest water colour artist, Sir William Russell Flint was born on April 4th, 1880 in Edinburgh, Scotland.
He received full recognition as a painter and illustrator with his election to the Royal Institute of Painters in Water-Colours (1912) and as an associate of the Royal Society of Painters in Water-Colours (1914; RWS 1917).
In this period he gained a reputation for his painting of Spanish Gypsy girls and gained much recognition and support during the 1920's and 1930's. In 1947 he was awarded honours as a Royal Academian and elected President of the Royal Watercolour Society being augmented by a knighthood.
Sir William Russell Flint continued painting until his death on December 30th 1969 at the age of 89. Galleries and museums throughout the world are displaying his works.
Literature:
Flint, Drawings by Sir William Russell Flint, Collins.
Ralph Lewis, Sir William Russell Flint, 1880-1969, Newton Abbott: David & Charles, 1988 (revised ed)
Arnold Palmer, London. More Than Shadows. A Biography of W Russell Flint.
William Turner
Bamborough Castle
505 by 705 mm.
“One of the finest watercolour-drawings in the world”The Graphic Society, 1837 Sold yesterday at Sotheby’s London for 2,932,500 GBP (Buyer's Premium incl.)
JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER, R.A. (1775-1851) is Britain’s greatest watercolourist and the last few years have seen him take centre stage like never before.
Described by the Graphic Society in 1837 as “one of the finest watercolour-drawings in the world” this major work looks set to generate huge excitement in the academic and collecting worlds alike. It is expected to fetch in excess of £1.5 million. Dating from the mid 1830s, Turner’s Bamborough Castle has spent most of its life to date in the possession of a distinguished private collection and, remarkably, it has not been seen on the open market since 1872 - some 135 years. In 1872 it was sold as part of the Joseph Gillott collection in London and realised £3,309, the highest price ever achieved for a watercolour at the time. The Earl of Dudley was the purchaser on this occasion but later - in about 1890 - the picture passed into the hands of one of the great American collecting families, that of the Vanderbilts. The Vanderbilt family played a significant role in the history of the United States; they built a shipping and railroad empire during the 19th century which made them one of the wealthiest families in the world. Since entering the collection of Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt, the watercolour has passed down through successive generations of the family while the outside world has remained mystified as to its whereabouts.
Listed as untraced in Andrew Wilton’s Catalogue of Turner Watercolours published in 1979, the work has not been seen in public since 1889.Perched on an outcrop on the very edge of the North Sea at Bamborough, Northumberland, Bamborough Castle is one of England’s finest castles. In his watercolour, Turner has chosen to show the castle from its north side, the angle which clearly portrays the height and presence of the castle’s impressive Norman walls. The formidable castle is serenely depicted as the one point of safety in the midst of a charged landscape. In the foreground, a woman and girl appear to cower from the large roiling waves while a ship struggles to reach the security of the land under the great storm clouds. In the 19th Century the castle had a reputation for being one of the great places of refuge on the British coast during storms for sailors in distress. It actually had rooms within the walls that were put aside for rescued sailors as well as a marine rescue party that constantly patrolled an eight-mile stretch of the coast north and south of the castle. Turner was a great admirer of such details and he captures the castle’s preparations with a rocket launched in the distance and people gathered at the waters-edge, ready to rescue the sailors who are rowing away from their vessel that has struck the massive rocks.
Photographs: masterwatercolors.
Press release Sotheby's.
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Marlene Dumas
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Marlene Dumas : wet dreams, watercolors / Jean-Christophe Ammann, … [et al.]. - Ostfildern-Ruit : Hatje Cantz, 2003. - 126 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - ISBN 3-7757-1343-3. – Tent.cat. : Ravensburg, Städtischen Galerie Ravensburg, 28.09.2003 – 14.12.2003
"It was my first time in a peepshow so when the girl smiled at me I said "Only looking", and she replied "That's how I got started here too"."
Marlene Dumas was born on 1953 in Cape Town and graduated from the University of Cape Town with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1975. She studied psychology in Holland for two years (1979--1980). Dumas corrupts the very way images are negotiated. Stripped of the niceties of moral consolation, Marlene Dumas's work provokes unmitigated horror.
The relation between art and female beauty, art and pornography, female models and models of art, all have been a constant theme for Marlene Dumas.
"My best works are erotic displays of mental confusions (with intrusions of irrelevant information)."
Marlene Dumas Dumas [°1953, Kaapstad, Zuid-Afrika] groeide op onder het apartheidsregime in Zuid-Afrika, zij begon met schilderen aan de academie van Kaapstad en haar figuratieve, donkere en zorgelijke werken uit die tijd zijn doortrokken van een broeierige onrust. De rol van de vrouw is een belangrijk uitgangspunt in haar werk, van het vrouwelijk naakt dat haar betekenis is kwijtgeraakt tot de naakte vrouw die haar zinnen verliest.
“mijn voorliefde voor toeval, textuur en contrasten in de verflaag en de sterk emotionele eigen lading van kleur”.
Hoe verschillend haar werken ook mogen zijn, ze allemaal levendig, aanstekelijk, sexy en altijd gericht op de erotische kant van het bestaan.
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Alexei Harlamoff
Click to enlargeThis magnificent watercolour will be sold in auction on November 29th in London.Harlamoff was born close to Saratov (Russia), and he was a student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Saint Petersburg as a young boy of 14.
For more info, on demand by comment.
Erna de Backer
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“Aquaplanning” by Erna de Backer
Publics Prize 2007.
Watercolour Show A.I.B. Belgium – Europe.
Erna de Backer was born in the year 1952 in Denderwindeke (Pajottenland), a lovely village in Belgium. She was a student at the Academy of Fine Arts for 18 years, and she still finds her studies insufficient. She is a signature member of the AIB ( Aquarel Institute Belgium).
For her watercolour is fascinating, difficult, underestimated, challenging, honest and inexhaustible.
With this watercolour Erna was honoured with the Publics Prize in the main 2007 Watercolour Show at Mol, Belgium.
Wat betekent aquarel voor mij ?
Boeiend
Moeilijk
Onderschat
Uitdagend
Eerlijk
Onuitputtelijk.
De aquarel “Aquaplanning” vind ik in de eerste plaats ludiek eerder dan artistiek. Het zal de aparte
manier van benadering van water zijn, dat de kijker zal aangesproken hebben. Het maken van deze
aquarel gebeurde vrij vlot eens de tekening in potlood was gemaakt. Er werden geen afdekmiddelen
gebruikt, alléén in de linker en rechterbovenhoek werden wat zoutkristallen aangebracht. Verder is het
gewoon techniek, zoals spatten met de juiste kleur en kwantiteit van water in je borstel, de juiste
richting en... doe maar op. WAT je wil vetertellen benadruk je, de rest laat je achterwege.
Erna is geboren 1952 en wonende te Denderwindeke, Stebbingen, 10. Zij volgde 18 jaaracademie en vind dit nog steeds onvoldoende.Lid van de fantastische vereniging A.I.B. en is er sinds kort ook kernlid ervan.
Van harte proficiat Erna!
With thanks to the artist. / Photographs: Erna de Backer.
Mary Fedden
A fine watercolour by Mary Fedden will be sold in auction in Berkshire, U.K., on October 23.
Man on a beach Watercolour. Signed and dated 1989 lower right, inscribed "Felicity & Harry with love" lower left. 13.5cm x 19cm. The Felicitly and Harry to whom this is dedicated are Sir Henry (Harry) Fisher (1918-2005) President of Wolfson College, Oxford, and Judge and his wife Felicity (Sutton) (1922-2007). See lot 181 for a portrait of Felicity by Augustus John. A variant of this watercolour was sold at Sotheby’s Olympia, lot 160, 7th September 2006.
Mary Fedden was born in 1915, she graduated from the Slade School of Art in 1936 after which she returned to Bristol where she taught and painted until the outbreak of World War Two. From 1946 she developed her style of still lives and flower paintings which were reminiscent of Matisse and Braque. About her husband Julian Trevelyan:
'He really changed the direction of my painting'
In 1956 she was a teacher at the Royal College of Art , after 1964 when she took up a ten year post at the Yehudi Menuhin School for gifted musicians.
' I really float from influence to influence…. I found the early Ben Nicholsons fascinating as were the paintings of his wife Winifred. I also admire the Scottish artist Anne Redpath and the French painter Henri Hayden.' 1 ('The Artist' magazine, 1995)
Mary Fedden was President of the Royal West of England Academy from 1984 to 1988 and was elected a Royal Academician in the Senior Order in 1992. Working exclusively in watercolour and collage her still lives are usually placed in front of a landscape. She loves the rough texture of her favourite Indian papers which she works on in their unstretched state .
Another splendid watercolour: "Untitled"
Expo Jan Vanriet
"Snène"
Click to enlarge Jan Vanriet (1948) is schilder, graficus, illustrator en dichter Vanriet maakt schilderijen waarin de mens zich beweegt in een suggestief kader. Elk schilderij laat zich lezen als een onderdeel van zijn beeldtaal, als een gedicht van vorm en kleur.
Centraal in De Bijl toont Jan Vanriet een voorstelling van een rolschaatsend meisje. Ook een reeks tekeningen en aquarellen zijn te bewonderen waaronder enkele uit “De Testamenten”, een serie met de Bijbel als onderwerp.
Tentoonstellingsruimte De Bijl
Dorp 1-3
Zoersel (Belgium)
van zaterdag 6 tot en met zondag 28 oktober
open op:
zaterdag van 13.30 tot 18 uur
zondag van 11 tot 18 uur
The painter Jan Vanriet was born in Antwerp on 21 february 1948.
In 1972, after his studies at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, he first exhibited at De Zwarte Panter Gallery. Immediately afterwards a partnership was born with Jan Lens. In this period he developed into an excellent aquarellist and a few books were published : 'maria lecina', 'death in venice', 'het teken van de hamster'.
He took part in the Menton Biennale and exhibited at Naviglio, Milan and Brusberg, Hannover. The Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels and the Kunstverein in Darmstad exhibited the Death in Venice series.
Exhibitions e.a. in Dublin, Michigan, Frankfurt, Johannesburg, Luxembourg.
Vanriet made a mural for the De Brouckère metro station in Brussels : two walls, panels on metal around 210 metres long.
Jan Vanriet lives and works in Antwerp (Belgium) and in the Provence (France).
Official website of the artist.With thanks to the artist. / photographs: Jan Vanriet.
William Crozier
“The Cutting, West Cork.”
Signed and dated 1989.
(56 x 78 cm)
This fantastic watercolour by William Crozier will be sold in auction on 24 September 2007 in Skibbereen, rightly known as the capital of West Cork.
Crozier’s paintings in oil and watercolour are recognisable for their energy vitality and colour. In his exhibition we can particularly enjoy the artist’s excellent graphic abilities in his beautiful works on paper.
William Crozier was born in Glasgow in 1930 and educated at the Glasgow School of Art. On graduating he moved to London where he established his reputation at the forefront of his contemporaries through solo exhibitions at the ICA, Serpentine, Scottish and other Galleries. From the mid-1950s onwards, Crozier spent long periods living in Dublin and France, followed by a period in southern Spain, which was to prove central to his development as an artist. In 1991 the Crawford Art Gallery Cork and the Royal Hibernian Academy curated a large retrospective of his work.
Taught at the Central School of Art and latterly at Winchester from where he retired as Head of Fine Art in 1987 to paint full-time. Vibrant colour, striking, sophisticatedly-simplified design characterise his landscape work. Some of his shows brought huge success in Ireland where he spend part of his time.
Crozier was affected by post-war existential philosophy, throughout his life has allied himself and his work consciously with European art and thought. Early in his career he developed a highly personalized vision of nature, which in the 1960s and 1970s incorporated skeletal figures, making 'art that is as a razor slash' which ran counter to the prevailing tastes in abstraction and Pop-art imagery of the time. Then, as now, his landscapes and still-lifes use sumptuous colour to engineer the emotional intensity of the paintings. He remains concerned with developing the language of figurative painting.
William Crozier (Hardcover)
by Katherine Crouan (Author)
“Crozier is a formidable colourist, and the critical texts are accompanied by extensive reproductions of the artist's work in colour. The book will be widely welcomed by collectors and devotees of the artist's work, students of modern art, and art lovers in general.”
“The certainty and confidence of William Crozier’s compositional sense sings out in an age of ambiguity. “
Otto Dix
Click to enlarge. “Homage a Martha”
Otto Dix, the son of a railroad worker, was born in Unternhaus, Germany, in 1891. After attending elementary school he worked locally until 1910 when he became a student at the Dresden School of Arts and Crafts and in Düsseldorf. To help fund his education, he accepted commissions and painted portraits of local people.
He explored Expressionism and founded the Neüe Sachlichkeit movement with George Grosz. He lived in Germany during the two Great Wars and died in Singen in 1969.
Otto Dix, the great German Expressionist, was famous for his unique and grotesque style. Although Hitler's Nazi regime destroyed many of Otto Dix's works, the majority of his paintings can still be seen in museums throughout Germany such as the Otto-Dix-Haus in Gera.
For him, the "new in painting" is "an intensification of forms of expression that already existed in essence with the Old Masters.
“For me, the object remains primary and form is shaped by it." (1927)
”As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.
Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it. “(Otto Dix interviewed in 1963)
“I had to experience everything very precisely...
I am such a realist, you know, that I have to see everything with my own eyes.”
Otto Dix: “Homage a Martha” by Karin Schick
(Exposition of 2005 in Stuttgart catalogue)
ISBN-10: 3775716203
The Martha portraits don’t just illustrate the work of Otto Dix in all its facets and variants. They also provide a glimpse of the 1920s with its cosmopolitan style, established and revolutionary roles for the sexes, fashion, music, dance, and the quest for freedom in art and life.
A fine watercolor by Otto Dix...
“..ich habe Tatsachen gemalt, die vor Jahren genauso gültig waren wie heute, morgen und immer. Das Leben kann schön und schrecklich sein. Also ich muss auch das Schreckliche und Furchtbare machen….”(Otto Dix)
Marlies Najaka
"Unwound"Marlies Merk Najaka has been a professional artist for 30 years. Her paintings are included in many corporate, museum and private collections. She is a signature member of AWS and NWS. It is Marlies’ unique and sensitive use of color that makes her art so recognizable. She is able to capture the delicate essences of shadow and light and incorporate them with a forceful underlying composition. Her paintings appear truly illuminated from within. “My work is always as much about what I eliminate in my painting as it is about what I include.” Because of the unique method in which she applies her watercolors, Marlies is able to achieve richly toned and extremely complex glazes of color. Until recently, Marlies’ work had been almost impossible to duplicate using conventional printing techniques. “With the advent of Iris/Glicee printing, I am finally able to recreate my art. Giclée prints incorporate all of the subtle nuances of my original art so well that it is rarely possible for me to distinguish one from the other”.
The Fall 2003 issue of American Artist's Watercolor Magazine featured an extensive article on my watercolor paintings. The article can be viewed on my BLOG
My watercolor painting "Unwrapped" was exhibited this past year at the National Watercolor Society and Philadelphia Watercolor Society's Members' Exhibition.
My watercolor paintings are reproduced using the Giclee printing process because it accurately duplicates the luminous quality of my watercolor washes. My limited edition Giclee prints are printed on a heavyweight archival watercolor paper, the same paper I use for my original watercolor paintings. Each print is signed and numbered.
Najaka's palette includes: lemon yellow, Sahara yellow, Gamboge, opera, mineral violet, permanent mauve, Hansa yellow deep, Hooker's green, Milori Blue, peacock blue, turquoise, Monestial blue, lapis lazuli, ultramarine violet, phthalo blue green, and Indian blue.
"I like to think of my approach to painting as "controlled spontaneity", remarks the artist. By disassociating herself with the subject the artist is able to focus on the interplay of shapes and colors that define the object and entertain her audience. "Someone once said my painting was like a "hot fudge sundae for the eyes."
Books that feature my paintings are: "Splash 5, The Glory of Color", "Splash 6, The Best of Watercolor" and "Object lessons". A featured article in The Fall issue of Watercolor magazine describes my watercolor painting technique.
"Unwrapped"
Image size: 21 X 16" Paper size: 27x 22"Official weblog of the artist.Official website of the artist.
With thanks to the artist. / Photographs: Marlies Najaka.
William Turner watercolours London sale, 4. of July 2007.
Lot 9: "Venice"
Thirteen important watercolours by Joseph Malllord William Turner (1775-1851) were sold this evening at Sotheby’s London in auction for a total amount of around 11 Million Pounds. The Belgian Baron Guy Ullens and his wife Myriam formerly collected them.
The depicted work (lot 9) “Venice: looking towards the Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore” was sold initially to the Reverend Stopford Augustus Brooke (1832 - 1916). He lived in London and had an extensive collection of art. Now it was sold for about three Million £ ST.
Exhibited twice in London, In the Royal Academy (1974) and in Tate Gallery “Turner and Venice” in 2003.
References can be found in several books such as : Sir Walter Armstrong, Turner, 1902; Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Art and Life, 1979; and Ian Warrell, Turner and Venice, 2007.
This Venice watercolour was painted on original Whatman paper dated 1834.
(The Royal Institute for Watercolour Artists, London.)
More can be found on the website of Sotheby’s.
Photos: masterwatercolors 2007.
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Modigliani
Rare Modigliani watercolour to be offered at Bonhams
A beautiful watercolour executed in 1913 by the renowned Italian artist, Amedeo Modigliani (Italian, 1884-1920) will be sold in the Impressionist sale at Bonhams in New Bond Street on Wednesday 27 June 2007.
Set to fetch £350,000 - £450,000, the work titled “Cariatide” is produced in watercolour and pencil heightened with white on paper laid down on card.
Director of Paintings, Caroline Oliphant comments, “Bonhams is very pleased to be offering Cariatide 1913 in our June sale - this is an exceptionally lovely work. Modigliani produced numerous drawings, but a fully-worked watercolour is much rarer to see. It presents an opportunity for collectors to obtain a wonderful example of a classic Modigliani subject. ”
Modigliani (1884-1920) was born into a Jewish family in the Italian port town of Livorno. Unhealthy as a child, he ceased his formal schooling in 1898 and began to study art instead. The theme of the caryatid dominated Modigliani’s works in the years between 1910 and 1914. He believed he was first and foremost a sculptor, but failing health forced him to abandon this physically demanding medium in favour of painting and drawing after 1913 – the year this watercolour was made. Nonetheless sculpture remained a fundamental preoccupation with him and his drawings and paintings after 1913 continue to show his obsession with monumental figures and sculptural forms.
Photograph: Bonhams.
Festival d'Aquarelle
(Aquarelle de Xavier Swolfs)
FESTIVAL D’AQUARELLE ™ à Brioude (France)Haut lieu de l’art roman en Auvergne, destination nature et de plein air par excellence, Brioude est aussi une ville où la culture est profondément ancrée, avec notamment cinq lieux d’expositions permanentes et la présence de plusieurs artistes. Dans ce contexte, l’Association Festival d’Aquarelle, créée en 2002, s’est donné comme mission de faire connaître et reconnaître l’aquarelle en tant qu’art majeur. Depuis 2003, elle oeuvre à faire de Brioude la cité de l’Aquarelle en organisant la Biennale de l’Aquarelle. Le succès rencontré auprès des artistes et du public lors des deux premières manifestations con.rme que l’objectif est en passe d’être atteint : 12 000 entrées en 2003 et 30 000 en 2005.
Aujourd’hui, la Biennale renforce son ouverture à l’international en maillant son réseau à ceux d’autres associations (Institut Européen de l’Aquarelle, Société Française de l’Aquarelle (SFA), Salon de l’Aquarelle de Namur…) et en communiquant avec la presse étrangère.
Reconnue lors de ses deux premières éditions pour son originalité, sa qualité et sa convivialité, plébiscitée par les artistes, les associations nationales et internationales d’aquarelle, les partenaires institutionnels, la presse et le public,
la Biennale de l’Aquarelle 2007 ™
(3e édition) se tiendra du 12 au 26 juillet à Brioude en Haute-Loire en FRANCE
et accueillera 40 peintres, français et étrangers.
UN CONCEPT UNIQUE
Pendant deux semaines, le public est invité à partir à la découverte de la cité et des 40 expositions d’aquarellistes, réparties dans une vingtaine de lieux du centre historique, y compris dans les cinq galeries permanentes, toutes partenaires de la Biennale : Les Tourelles, Cœur d’Art, Vincent Besançon, La Mirandelle, La Maison de Mandrin. Chaque lieu accueille un ou plusieurs artistes, à raison de 15 à 30 aquarelles par exposant. Ce parcours pictural inédit permet aux visiteurs d’approcher une multitude d’artistes et d’apprécier des œuvres, techniques et sensibilités différentes dans une seule discipline : l’aquarelle. Plus de 800 œuvres originales seront ainsi exposées, toutes sources de découverte, de plaisir et d’émotion
CARREFOUR ARTISTIQUE INTERNATIONAL
De renommée nationale et internationale, quarante artistes ont été sélectionnés par une commission composée de peintres, d’architectes, de professeurs, de graphistes et de collectionneurs. Pour répondre aux attentes d’un public curieux, exigeant, connaisseur et avide de nouveautés, les candidatures sont examinées à la fois sous l’angle de la qualité des œuvres présentées, mais aussi de l’originalité de la démarche artistique. Par ailleurs le règlement prévoit que la participation est limitée à deux éditions consécutives, ce qui garantit un renouvellement des artistes. L’édition 2007 accueillera notamment des peintres de la Société Française de l’Aquarelle et de l’Institut Européen de l’Aquarelle. La Biennale reçoit également des artistes qui utilisent l’aquarelle au côté d’autres techniques (gouache, acrylique, encre) et sur d’autres supports (illustrations de livres ; création de bandes dessinées, de carnets de voyage…).
Quelques artistes:
BELGIQUE : SWOLFS Xavier • CAMBODGE : ANG Aline • CANADA/BELGIQUE : FELLER Odette, etc
info:
la Biennale de l’Aquarelle 2007
Jos Hendrickx expo
Vandaag laatste dag tentoonstelling Jos Hendrickx te Zoersel.
Grafiek, tekeningen, aquarel.
Lokaal "de Bijl" recht tegenover de kerk.Meer gegevens hier
Paula Fiebich AWS Award 2007
Venetian Gold, (22 x 291/2 in.)
AWS GOLD MEDAL OF HONOR 2007
Click to enlargePaula F. Fiebich, born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, has become a local and nationally recognized artist for her watercolors and artwork. Having exhibited for the National Watercolor Society and the American Watercolor Society along with several local shows has resulted in invitations to purchase and exhibit her work. She is the recipient of the American Watercolor Society’s Gold Metal of Honor for 2007 in New York City. This is one of the highest awards for watercolor achievement.
Paula has 27 years of experience in artistic careers and has been engaged in various creative projects throughout that time. She currently is a Designer/Alias Sculptor for General Motors Design Studios in Warren, Michigan and previously was employed as a staff artist in the toy industry.
Projects to her credit include not only watercolors in gallery exhibits but also colored pencil drawings in a local gallery. Through General Motors, she became involved in a local charity in which her artistic “3D” masks were auctioned. She also became involved in artwork for funds to be raised for the renovation of “Meadowbrook Hall” during the “Concourse D’ Elegance” car show held annually in the Detroit area.
Paula’s love of anything Italian or French, has made this a predominate theme in much of her artwork.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
This painting, “Venetian Gold” was totally inspired by a trip to Venice, Italy. The mask, handmade by artisans in Venice, was purchased by me in a quaint shop there. The “scarf”, a Versace inspired designed in the background, comes from Florence. I was attracted to the pattern immediately. Together, my intent was to create a sort of mystical, renaissance feel to the painting. I so love Italy and continue to be inspired each time I have the privilege of visiting.
Afbeeldingen van aquarellen van winners in de prestigieuze jaarlijkse Amerikaanse tentoonstelling van AWS kan je hier vinden. De belangrijkste award, de Gold Medal of Honor, werd gewonnen door Paula Fiebich met de toepasselijke titel "Venetiaans Goud".De organisatie bestaat sinds 1886 en is dan ook meer dan een eeuw jong. Eén van de leden was onder andere Samuel Colman die voor zijn "Storm King on the Hudson" inspiratie vond bij William Turner.
With thanks to the artist. / Photo Paula Fiebich.
Paul Cézanne
Nature morte au melon vert, 1902-06
(Lot No.8: Sold for 25,520,000 US$ )ICONIC WORK WILL BE SOLD FROM THE PRIVATE COLLECTION OF
THE GREATEST DEALER OF CHINESE ART IN THE WORLD,
GIUSEPPE ESKENAZI, IN NEW YORK ON MAY 8, 2007
On May 8, 2007 Sotheby’s New York will have the privilege of offering for sale the most important watercolor by Paul Cézanne remaining in private hands, Nature morte au melon vert. Executed in 1902-06, this exquisite masterwork is being sold by the world’s premier connoisseur of Chinese Art, Giuseppe Eskenazi, who has kept it in his private collection for nearly two decades. This is the third time that Sotheby’s has had the honour of offering this work for sale – first, in the legendary sale of The Robert von Hirsch Collection in 1978, one of the greatest collections to be sold by Sotheby’s since World War II, and second, in the sale of The British Rail Pension Fund in 1989, the finest collection to be sold in Europe in the 1980s at the pinnacle of the art market. Mr. Eskenazi purchased the work at the 1989 sale for a record price for a watercolour by the artist (£2,530,000; $4,301,990); a record that still stands today. It is estimated to sell for $14/18 million. Also being offered by Mr. Eskenazi are three other watercolours by Cézanne depicting classic scenes of the artist’s beloved Provence. All four works will be on view at Sotheby’s London from April 17 to 20, 2007 and in New York from May 3 to 7, 2007, prior to their sale on the evening of May 8, 2007.
David Norman, a Chairman of Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Art Department Worldwide said, “Not since this stunning work appeared on the market in 1989 in the historic British Rail Pension Fund sale has a watercolour by Cézanne of this quality and importance appeared at auction. It has changed hands very few times in its hundred year history, yet among its previous owners were Ambroise Vollard, the artist’s first dealer and greatest proponent; the legendary collector Robert von Hirsch and Giuseppe Eskenazi, a man renowned for his discerning eye and impeccable taste. Nature morte au melon vert appears on the market in remarkably fresh condition – the saturation of colour and luminosity is virtually undiminished since its execution.” ...
Three other watercolours by Cézanne will also be offered from Mr. Eskenazi’s collection. Each represents a key image in the artist’s oeuvre focused on his beloved Provence, and has remained in Mr. Eskenazi’s private collection for nearly 25 years. Rochers près des grottes au-dessus de Château Noir, from 1895-1900, belongs to a series of watercolours depicting the rock formations adjacent to the caves above the Château Noir, in the vicinity of the Mont Sainte-Victoire (est. $2/3 million). Dating from the last decade of Cézanne’s career, Amandier en Provence demonstrates his command of the medium of watercolour and his delight in depicting the scenery of his native Provence (est. $1.4/1.8 million). One of Cézanne’s most celebrated images, that of the Sainte-Victoire hill near his native Aix-en-Provence, is also represented. La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, executed in 1900-02, depicts Mont Sainte-Victoire from the west, showing the same view as another watercolour version of this subject, now in the collection of the Musée du Louvre in Paris (est. $1.2/1.6 million). Mr. Norman concluded, “Individually, each work is an extraordinary example of the artist’s mastery in this medium. Collectively, the four watercolours constitute one of the single greatest holdings in private hands and represent a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for collectors.”
Photograph: Sotheby's.
James Brantley
"Southern Gentleman."
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Watercolor, 19x26 in. Arches 140 pound hot press.
Best of Show
Louisiana Watercolor Society
2000 International Exhibition
New Orleans, Louisiana
Dagmar Tribble Award
American Watercolor Society
2001 International Exhibition
New York, New York
Via the website of The American Watercolor Society I learned about the work of James D. Brantley.
The first time I saw this magnificent watercolor I was very pleased about its expressiveness. Mr. Brantley granted me permission to put it on my blog for which I thank him very much.
A Step-by-Step Watercolor Portrait Demonstration can be found here on the website of the artist.
“My Subject
My subject for this portrait, as well as for many others, was John Reeves. Mr. Reeves was a cotton farmer from near Greenville, Georgia. He and his wife, Lucille, were sharecroppers many years ago, raising cotton and giving part of the crop to the landowner. Later, Mr. Reeves bought the land and was his own boss. He built 11 houses on the land, one for each of his children. His children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren still live on the land today. Mr. and Mrs. Reeves have passed on. I have never met any finer people than John and Lucille Reeves.
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Palette
- Raw Sienna
- Burnt Sienna
- Burnt Umber
- Lamp Black
- Ultramarine Blue
- Yellow Ochre
- Quinacridone Rose
…
Talent alone is worthless
I am often asked how long it takes to paint something like this. This painting was completed in about 24 hours actual working time. But it took me 50 years to learn to do this exact painting. And this painting, like every painting, drains me both emotionally and physically. Painting for me is not easy. I struggle with it, fret over it, and lose sleep over it. But I love it. I hope that I can inspire someone to give it a try. But remember this: Talent alone is worthless, unless it is coupled with work, work, work.
I always wanted to be able to paint people as well as the great masters painted people. During all that time, I never learned to paint landscapes very well. I have done a few, but none to my satisfaction. In the few years that I have left, I am going to concentrate on learning to paint landscapes. You won’t be seeing any more people paintings. Oh, I plan to do some portraits of my family, but nothing else. I love beautiful mountain streams, with clear water rushing over big rocks. There are also several old mills that I want to paint. Check back in a few weeks and see if I have done anything.”
“All there is to thinking, is seeing something noticeable which makes you see something you weren’t noticing which makes you see something that isn’t even visible.”
Ewa Karpińska
"Aquarelle, la lumière de l'eau."
livre de Ewa Karpińska.
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een absolute aanrader! en nog steeds voorradig ...
"Wet-on-Wet Watercolour Painting offers practical answers to the most frequently asked questions and provides clear and sound advice on all the wet-on-wet watercolour techniques. Ideal for those with a basic grasp of watercolour painting. The book begins with an introduction to the tools and materials needed for the medium and how to use them, looking at the different types of brushes, papers and paints. This is followed by an exploration into wet-on-wet. Simple exercises help explain the techniques backed up by a selection of paintings which are broken down into step-by-step stages to provide further inspiration. Lavishly illustrated with colour photographs throughout as well as step-by-step artworks and diagrams on the theory of colour, this is an essential practical guide for anyone interested in this popular and satisfying medium.
Watercolour is the medium of choice for visual artists today, and this practical new guide to is sure to top the list of must-have resources for beginners and experienced alike. Everything watercolourists need to bring their vision alive on paper is here: how to follow the inner rhythm of the water; when to reflect and when to take instant action; and how to choose the appropriate surface, colour, and brushstroke to achieve the most effective results. All wet-on-wet techniques are explored and lavishly illustrated, and a series of vibrant artworks breaks down the watercolour process into stages to provide further understanding and inspiration."
This book can be found both in the English and French languages on the internet.
« Ewa KARPINSKA est une élève de Jean-Louis MORELLE, peintre aquarelliste… : comme lui elle n'a de cesse que d'apprivoiser, dans chacune de ses oeuvres, le cycle de l'eau, maîtrisant à merveille les effets de cette technique incomparable. » (Vero)
« Eau des deltas des fleuves posée, assagie;
comme dans le pays de mon père … »
(Ewa Karpińska)
Baron Ullens Watercolour Collection
SOTHEBY'S TO SELL FINEST COLLECTION OF TURNER WATERCOLOURS. Sotheby’s announces today that on Thursday, July 5, 2007, it will offer for sale one of the finest collections of watercolours by Joseph Mallord William Turner R.A., (1775-1851) to have come to the market in living memory. Britain’s greatest watercolourist, Turner now enjoys an international reputation – something that has driven prices to ever-higher levels in recent years. …
In subject and style, the works in the Ullens collection cover everything from lively, naturalistic renditions of British coastal scenes to almost impressionistic views in Switzerland, Germany, France and Italy. Spanning the first half of the 19th century, the works allow for a clear chronological appreciation of Turner’s development but, whether early or late, naturalistic or impressionistic, all the watercolours bear the vivid hallmarks of Turner’s unique – and very physical – relationship with the medium: his energetic handling of colour, often applied in rapid, scratch-like strokes, or smeared into place with his fingertips, or scratched away with the tip of a brush to reveal the paper beneath. In addition, almost every one of the watercolours benefits from a distinguished provenance, having previously belonged to notable contemporaries of the artist such as the indefatigable art critic John Ruskin, or Turner’s great patron and friend, the Yorkshire landowner Walter Fawkes.
Painted at around the same time, c.1840, Venice: Looking towards the Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore, with a storm approaching (illustrated left), is a free and expressive work. Here, in characteristically unorthodox manner, Turner chose not to focus solely on the architecture of Venice, but
instead uses its architecture as an anchor for the central subject of the drawing – bobbing gondolas and the gathering clouds that presage a storm. One of a number of watercolours on the theme of storms, the drawing was once part of Turner’s “Storm” sketchbook – the works from which rank among Turner’s most profound responses to Venice. Evoking both the beauty and the vulnerability of this magnificent city, Venice (est: £800,000-1,200,000) belongs to a group of late Turner watercolours which are now recognised to be among the most remarkable achievements in British art.
“Turner’s watercolours are universal, or absolute, and at the same time very intimate. In that way, they are just like those of the classical Chinese paintings – Song, Yuan, Ming and Ching. For both, landscape was the absolute: peopled with small figures, and perhaps a donkey – almost lost in the immensity of the natural world and its extraordinary light. One of my dreams was always to mount an exhibition of Turner’s watercolours alongside my collection of classical Chinese paintings. It would have been fascinating, but now I am devoting myself to another field that is close to my heart – contemporary Chinese art – so there isn’t scope to realise that other dream.” (Baron Ullens)
Photograph: Sotheby's.
Marc Folly
STAGE D’AVRIL 2007
A BRUXELLES MARC FOLLY
"l'Atelier" (Detail) Cliquer pour agrandir.
Copyright Marc Folly.
Au delà des aspects techniques, « humide sur humide - humide sur sec », et
stylistiques propre à l’aquarelle que nous aborderons lors des stages, je
m’attacherai à vous faire redécouvrir les bases de tout art pictural :
Le dessin, l’ombre et la lumière, la composition, la trichromie, les harmonies
colorées sont en effet les appuis de votre expressivité et de votre créativité.
Nous travaillerons principalement sur le motif, en atelier ou à l’extérieur et les
thèmes abordés serons toujours accompagnés de plusieurs démonstrations et
de nombreux conseils.
Stage du Samedi 28 et Dimanche 29 AVRIL, de 10h00 à 18H00,
au 1180 rue de la Mutualité à BRUXELLES.
Le coût de ce stage est de 120 euros.
Prévoir son pic-nic pour le repas de midi.
Prenez votre papier habituel en format A4 tendu, excluez néanmoins les
papiers Arches et faite l’achat de quatre couleurs en tube de 5ml : jaune indien –
laque de garance foncée – bleu outremer – bleu céruléum
Renseignements : Marc FOLLY Tel : 04 78 39 42 72
www.marc-folly.com- E-mail mf@marc-folly.com
William Turner
The Art Fund and Tate have launched a public appeal to give this fundraising effort the final push it needs to reach the summit in a race against time.
Link to the "Blue Rigi"
JMW Turner (1775 – 1851) is considered to be one of the greatest painters Britain has ever produced. The Turner Bequest, left to the nation by the artist following his death in 1851, is the largest and finest collection of his work and comprises hundreds of oils and thousands of watercolours and other works on paper, providing a profound insight into his creative evolution.
Egon Schiele (1890-1918)
Egon Schiele, Kauernder weiblicher Akt mit blonden Haaren 1914.Sotheby’s sale of German & Austrian Art
to include major works by
Schiele, Kandinsky, Jawlensky & Nolde
SOTHEBYS’ SALE of German & Austrian Art on the evening of Monday, February 5, 2007 is set to be one of its strongest yet. Together, the 23 works in the sale carry a combined estimate* of £12.1-17.1 million, and among them are exceptional works by leading figures such as Egon Schiele, Wassily Kandinsky, Alexej von Jawlensky, Emil Nolde and Ludwig Meidner, illustrating every aspect of this crucial period in the development of early 20thcentury art.
Egon Schiele’s Kauernder weiblicher Akt mit blonden Haaren und aufgestütztem linken Arm (illustrated above) is a powerful and arresting image of a female nude executed in 1914 - the year in which Schiele’s obsession with the naked form reached its expressive height, when “the rickrack embellishment of favourite features such as armpits or hair reaches an unprecedented frenzy” (Jane Kallir). Schiele (1890-1918) relished depicting the curves and contours of the nude’s anatomy, and the palpable sense of energy that the artist must have felt as he rendered the form on paper is fully evident in this compelling rendition of a woman who is at once a femme fatale and a vulnerable human being. Estimated at £2,250,000-3,250,000 (€3,340,000-4,820,000) the gouache ranks among the artist’s finest works. Having remained in the same collection since the 1970s, it has never before been seen in public.
"All beautiful and noble qualities have been united in me ... I shall be the fruit which will leave eternal vitality behind even after its decay. How great must be your joy, therefore, to have given birth to me." (1913)
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917).
A ne pas manquer à Paris ….
Nog tot 18 maart 2007! Hier volgen enkele sprokkels:
Du 22 novembre au 18 mars 2007, le musée Rodin (Paris) présente l'expo Rodin : les figures d'Eros, Dessins et Aquarelles 1890-1917. Sont à découvrir : 140 dessins et aquarelles ainsi que 5 sculptures viennent témoigner de la création d'Auguste Rodin.
Selon le Nouvel Obs, les dessins érotiques de Rodin sont "d'une impudeur à faire rougir un singe" !... En voilà un programme...
Rodin réalise des centaines de dessins d'après les modèles féminins qui posent pour lui dans son atelier dans des attitudes inédites, rarement convenues, souvent sensuelles, extravagantes et provocantes.
Rodin réalise des centaines de dessins d'après les modèles féminins qui posent pour lui dans son atelier dans des attitudes inédites, rarement convenues, souvent sensuelles, extravagantes et provocantes.
Ces dessins s’inscrivent souvent dans une recherche de la forme pure, l’érotisme se manifeste néanmoins comme une donnée essentielle, comme le moteur principal de sa démarche créatrice.
« Soyez en colère, rêvez, priez, pleurez, dansez. C’est à moi de saisir et de retenir la ligne qui me paraît vraie. »
(A. Rodin)
Horaires.
par Hatje Cantz.
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Daniel Estrade
" A MAINS NUES"
Aquarelle sur le motif vallée du Lys (Pyrénées) ,2006.
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Daniel Estrade est né en 1954 à Luchon. Il a fait ses études à l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris.
« Je pratique l’aquarelle depuis une dizaine d’années. Initié à la technique des anciens (école de Van Eyck) par Nicolas Wacker (ex beaux arts de Paris – 1971-73), j’ai souhaité appliquer ce savoir – superposition de fins glacis sur couches denses – au médium aquarelle. Cette option m’a posé deux problèmes: perte de luminosité suite à une superposition excessive des couches et impossibilité d’obtenir un trait incisif dans le détail car tout papier aquarelle détrempe et se « fatigue » très vite.
En effet, les pigments appliqués sur parchemin ne pénètrent pas le support. Les couches ne s’encrassent pas. Au contraire, leur addition renforce l’éclat des couleurs. Ce support permet de plus d’obtenir une finesse exceptionnelle dans le traité du détail. …
Le parchemin est une « matière glaireuse » qui vous « donne » dès l’application des premières couches, la texture exacte de la matière que vous souhaiter obtenir: lisse ou rugueuse, soyeuse ou rêche. Même observée à la loupe, la matière picturale ne révèle pas l’empreinte du coup de pinceau. On peut ainsi aller très loin dans la précision, creuser au maximum sa vision, et happer le regard du spectateur. »
A ne pas manquer, exposition:
"L'Homme-Paysage
Visions d'artistes du paysage antropomorphe
entre le XVIe et le XXIe siècle"
15 octobre 2006 - 14 janvier 2007
PALAIS DES BEAUX-ARTS, LILLE (FR)
La recomposition de la nature par l'homme est un phénomène artistique très ancien qui dépasse les clivages culturels, géographiques et historiques et fusionne les cultures et les savoirs : peinture, art paysager, anatomie ... A travers la vision d'artistes depuis la renaissance jusqu'à l'art contemporain le plus pointu, cette exposition nous entraîne pour un fascinant voyage à travers les représentations de la nature métamorphosée. A la fois énigmes visuelles, mirages esthétiques et projections de fantasmes, ces oeuvres nous délivrent au-delà de leur langage plastique (peintures, sculpteurs, photographies...) un puissant message métaphysique quant à la place de l'homme dans l'univers.
"Voir un paysage tel qu'il est quand je n'y suis pas"
Simone Weil.
Site officiel de Daniel Estrade.Avec remerciement / Photo Daniel Estrade
Lian Zhen
Orchid2 , Spontaneous Style, hang scroll, 18"x36"
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Lian Zhen started sketching and painting since he was ten-years old and continue as his hobby when he was a family physician in Canton Province, China. In 1985 he immigrated to the United States. He received a Bachelor of Arts Degree from University of California at Berkeley in 1992 and a Master of Architecture Degree from MIT in 1996. He has many shows in the US, Hong Kong and China.
"Worst mistake you can make is to take painting too seriously. Just have a good time with it. Remember, not everyone can be a master, but everyone can have fun."Simple media are used such as liquid ink and “Marie’s” Chinese watercolors, which are more opaque than traditional watercolors. Chinese brushes have the ability to contain more water and pigment than their Western counterparts. Raw rice papers have strong absorption and blending capabilities. For spontaneous style, Shuan paper is used. This is a very thin absorbent paper that has the ability to spread paint like no other. For the detailed work Lian Zhen uses “mature” Shuan paper, sized to give it a shimmering sparkle.
"Painting for me is a spiritual process, I enjoy watching color flow from one corner of the painting to the other. One by one, each stroke reveals the next, connecting heart to arm, to hand, to fingers, and then onto the paper. It’s like a life force passing from me to the picture. "
Chinese Watercolor Painting Techniques - Painting Animals, published in December 2004
Chinese painting material
Official website of the artist.
With thanks to the artist. / Photo Lian Zhen.
Francis Bowyer
“Sunlit Koi, Temperate House, Kew “ Watercolour, RWS hp paper,
25 x 38 cm.
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Francis Bowyer was born in 1952 in London. He studied at St Martins School of Art and Chelsea School of Art in London. He has taught drawing and painting part-time at all levels up to postgraduate and is currently teaching at the Royal Academy Schools and Richmond School of Art . Like many other previous Presidents of the Royal Watercolour Society, Francis Bowyer comes from a family of artists; both his parents, his brother and his wife are all painters or designers. He spent a few years designing toys before returning to paint his pictures, which are full of colour and light. Much of his painting is done at Walberswick, Suffolk where the Bowyer family has a home.
L'art du mélange
"Ma palette est ordonnée d'une façon très classique.
D'un côté, les couleurs froides se composent essentiellement des bleus et de deux ou trois verts maximum. Les rouges et les jaunes dominent les tonalités chaudes. Aux deux extrémités de ma palette, je dispose une noix de blanc opaque.
La gouache blanc permanent que j'appelle « body colour » permet de donner de la consistance à mes pigments. J'en ajoute presque toujours à mes couleurs, à l'exception des pigments très dilués destinés à se répandre en lavis transparent sur le papier. En ce qui concerne les marques utilisées, il s'agit essentiellement de Winsor&Newton, pour la simple raison que j’y suis habitué.
Quant aux pinceaux, mes lavis petit-gris proviennent de la Royal Watercolour Society.
L’eau a ce pouvoir extraordinaire d’exalter les sentiments. Fluide énergétique, elle me provoque, m’interroge dans sa course lentement dessinée sur le papier."
Par Alexandre Bourré.
The Watercolours and Drawing Fair 2007
1 - 4 February 2007
The Royal Academy of Arts
6 Burlington Gardens,
London, W1S 3EX
Official website of the artist.More watercolors and mixed media
With thanks to the artist. / Photo Francis Bowyer.
Paul Jackson
"Blue Steel" Arches 260lb cold press paper. 24x24".
Click to enlarge.Born in Lawrence, Kansas, USA, and raised in Starkville, Mississippi, Paul began painting in college at Mississippi State University. In 1992 he received a Master's in Fine Art from the University of Missouri. Since then his artwork has received top honors in national and international competition, graced the covers of many magazines and books and inspired many people. He is a signature member of AWS.
Traditionally watercolor has been considered hard to control and too contrary for serious painting. Paul is one of the artists that have elevated this medium beyond a basic sketch, he pushes those boundaries.
The 139th annual exhibition of American Watercolor Society has chosen New York Nightlights, by Paul, for a prestigious honor, the Dong Kingman Award in the month of February of this year.Watercolor Tip: Winsor & Newton's Blending Medium slows the drying time of colors. Jackson says: "I used to add gum arabic to my rinse water. Every time I rinsed the brush I picked up a little gum arabic. Gum arabic slows down the drying time of the paints, but too much of it on the paper makes the surface shiny. Winsor & Newton's new Blending Medium, in contrast, slows down the drying time without adding a shine."
Nov. 3-5, 2006 :: Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival, Pensacola, Florida.
Aquareltip: Een tip van deze kunstenaar Paul Jackson is het mengen van een weinig Arabische gom in het spoelwater voor de borstels. Het papier blijft dan langer vochtig om te bewerken. Winsor & Newton heeft hiervoor ook een "Blending Medium" met dezelfde functie, het nadeel van de glans door de gom is hierbij echter opgelost.
Official website of the artist.With thanks to the artist. / Photo Paul Jackson.
Marc Folly
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"L'atelier du luthier" Bockingford 400 g. (73 x 53 cm)"Je m'intéresse aux ombres et aux couleurs de fonds simultanément et à quelques formes contrastées extérieures au personnage, pour l'intégrer dans son environnement."Marc Folly est né à Lyon en 1965, et il est formé à l'école des Arts appliqués dans sa ville natale. Il travaille l'aquarelle dans le vieux Lyon depuis 1992. Il est intéressé dans l'atmosphère des ateliers comme on peut constater dans cette aquarelle. Dans ses compositions, les ombres portées font parties intégrantes de la surface employée, ce qui provoque un intérêt visuel immédiat qui nous emmène lentement au sujet principal. L'arbre fait son ombre… Pour Marc Folly, c'est l'ombre qui fait l'arbre. Son style très particulier associe à un dessin figuratif, une technique d'aquarelle, lui permettant de réaliser des couleurs dont l'intensité se révèle exceptionnelle et originale pour ce type de travail.
Pour les contrastes: alizarine crimson Daler-Rowney n°515; vert Winsor nuance bleue Winsor&Newton n°719.
Une reportage dans "Pratique des Arts - Hors-série Aquarelle No. 6"
Site officiel de Marc Folly.Avec remerciement / Photo Marc Folly
Oeillets de poète.
"Oeillets de poète"Cette aquarelle faite par la "Fée des roses et des fleurs" sera vendue aujourd'hui dans une salle de vente en France. Le Musée Salies (à Bagnères-de-Bigorre, Midi Pyrénées) possède une belle collection de cette artiste.This watercolor will be sold today in auction in France. The artist was born in 1865 and is represented by a superb collection of 78 watercolors in the Museum Salies, France.
Simon Fletcher
Simon Fletcher was born in England where he began his career as a succesful landscape designer. He won the first prize from the British Association of Landscape Industries for a private garden in Hampshire. In 1982 he moved to France with his family, and he began to develop his techniques in watercolour and pastel.
Situé dans le Sud de France, l'Atelier Simon Fletcher se trouve dans un petit village historique aux alentours de Montpellier. Les tableaux peints aux quatre coins du monde sont visibles ainsi que les natures mortes renommées. Après quarante ans de voyages et d'expositions le peintre a décidé d'ouvrir ses portes aux grand public.
Simon Fletcher schreef een aantal boeken over zijn reizen in de ganse wereld, die verlucht werden met zijn aquarels, zoals "Wine and Landscape of the Languedoc".
With thanks to the artist. / Photo Simon Fletcher.
Dame Elisabeth Frink
Dame Elisabeth Frink was born in Suffolk in 1930. Animals were constant subject-matter throughout Frink's career. A perfect line and some watercolor is all she needs to create great art. The simplicity of forms makes it apart.A watercolor depicting a horse is in the Royal Collection, London.Eenvoud in lijnvoering, waardigheid en mysterie zijn de kenmerken van haar figuren, zij schijnen veraf. Frink's tekeningen zijn uitgevoerd met schaarse middelen, en haar gevoel voor textuur vinden we terug in haar sculpturen.Thanks to the webmaster/ The Royal Collection
Expo Leon Spilliaert
From September 21st, 2006 to February 4th, 2007, the Royal Museums of Fine Arts in Belgium presents an extensive
exhibition dedicated to the very personal work of Leon Spilliaert (Ostend 1881 - Brussels 1946). He is the precursor of a geometrical abstraction ... he redefines a vision of the space inspired by Japanese engravings.
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Graham Dean
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"Working the Curve" Watercolour on Indian Rag Paper, 30 x 60,5 inches
"In his tough, uncompromising paintings, Graham Dean is revealed as a sensualist. He is intoxicated by colour and by his pleasure in the sense of touch. He is engaged too, by the textural qualities and the technical potential of his materials: he loves the thick Indian paper he paints on, the transparency and opacity his medium is capable of delivering. ....
The association of watercolour with the tasteful and polite can no longer be maintained. Dean disabuses us of these outmoded references. Under his hand the medium has come of age, in toughness and capability it stands against any other media a painter may use."
Lynne Green
Official website of the artist.With thanks to Mr. DEAN.
Barabas Miklos (1810 - 1898)
The great Hungarian painter met the Scottish painter William Leighton Leitch in the 1830's in Venice. As a result of this friendship, Barabas was able to modernize watercolor landscape painting in the 19th-century Hungary.
"Venice at Dusk" 1834 by Barabas Miklos.
(14x18 cm.)
Oskar Koller (1925 - 2004)
"Durch Freude am Malen wurde ich Maler. Ich spürte die Luft, sah die Baume, die Menschen, die Hauser. An ihren Formen übte ich."
Oskar Koller
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"L'aquarelle
est un médium qui a des contraintes, qui accepte mal le repentir, c'est évident, mais offre néanmoins des possibilités étonnantes."
Gottfried Salzmann.photo: Salzmann.
Watercolour
This watercolor was in an exposition by Agnes van Gelder in "De Schotse Huizen" at Veere, The Netherlands, during the month of June 2006. Agnes was born at Veere (Walcheren). Absolute fine colors were used by here, brilliant aquarels!!!!
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