Peintures 8-bits par Adam Lister L’artiste américain Adam Lister réalise une série de peintures à l’aquarelle nommée 8-Bit Painting. Comme son nom l’indique, il peint des univers de la pop cutlure, Stars Wars, Breaking Bad, les Simpsons mais aussi ré-interprète des chefs d’oeuvre de la peinture de Magritte, Vermeer… Tout cela sous la forme d’un dessin sorti de nos vieilles consoles des années 90. Pour en savoir plus sur Adam Lister, cliquez ici. Pin It Pin It Pin It Pin It Pin It Pin It Pin It Pin It Pin It Pin It Pin It Pin It Pin It Pin It Pin It Pin It Pin It Pin It Pin It Pin It Pin It
LE PETIT CÉLINIEN Edward Hopper: The Watercolors National Museum of American Art Washington, D.C. Edward Hopper: The Watercolors October 22, 1999January 3, 2000 The first major exhibition in forty years of the watercolors of Edward Hopper (18821967) will premiere at the Smithsonian's American Art Museum on October 22, 1999. The product of several years' research by Virginia M. American Art) and Margaret Lynne Ausfeld (curator at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts), Edward Hopper: The Watercolors brings together rarely seen masterworks from fifteen private lenders and eighteen museums. The watercolors present an approach very different from that of Hopper's oils and their carefully composed urban scenes heavy with alienation and rigid geometry. "We are delighted to present these wonderful watercolors by one of America's most revered artists," said Elizabeth Broun, director of the Museum of American Art. Hopper who was moved by the thematic possibilities of simple houses and expansive skies." New York gallery sold. Web-Site Feature
Kurt Wenner Citations - 117 000 citations proverbes et dictons - Dicocitations Brief History of Watercolor Painting Watercolor also spelled WATERCOLOUR, pigment ground in gum, usually gum arabic, and applied with brush and water to a painting surface, usually paper; the term also denotes a work of art executed in this medium. The pigment is ordinarily transparent but can be made opaque by mixing with a whiting and in this form is known as body colour, or gouache; it can also be mixed with casein, a phosphoprotein of milk. Watercolor compares in range and variety with any other painting method. Transparent watercolor allows for a freshness and luminosity in its washes and for a deft calligraphic brushwork that makes it a most alluring medium. There is one basic difference between transparent watercolour and all other heavy painting mediums--its transparency. The oil painter can paint one opaque colour over another until he has achieved his desired result. The History of Watercolor America's contribution to the international watercolor tradition is second to none.
Artist's Physical Gestures Produce Beautiful Charcoal Drawings Using just her body and a piece of charcoal, New Orleans-based performance artist Heather Hansen bends and twists in fluid motions across the surface of paper to create beautifully rough symmetrical shapes and patterns. Her captivating performances involve dance-like movements that are just as much the main focus as the final, large-scale drawings. Watching her process is a mesmerizing experience where lines emerge from her many natural, physical gestures. Without hesitation, she repeats her movements and smears the lines together into the final, unpredictable works. She then lifts her body off of the page to reveal the one-of-a-kind pieces. Hansen quotes Joseph Campbell as part of her inspiration behind her work: "The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe. Photo Credits: Spencer Hansen; David SeeligHeather Hansen's website
Watercolor History: Colormen and Cavemen History of the Watercolor Industry Origins and Original Recipes "Rubbing-up" some sumi-e color sticks. Watercolor came to western artists in the late 1400s. In the 18th century the first paint manufacturers set up shop in major european cities. Artist’s watercolor paints came directly from the colourmen in dry clumps that had been cut off of clay-like slabs of prepared watercolor paint. The usual method of preparing to paint included "rubbing up" your colors with water on a stone or ceramic dish as you would a sumi-e ink stick. Bees provide a watercolor breakthrough William Reeves created the firstwater soluble watercolor in cake form. After setting up shop in 1766William Reeves (UK) began selling the first water soluble dry cake watercolors. The first hard—but brush-soluble—cakes were fancily embossed with crests and heraldic figures (see photo). Winsor & Newton 1849 Moist Watercolour Winsor Newton introduced their glycerine-softened formula moist cakes in 1835. The Pretty Colors
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