Word: watercolor
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...Virtues. Pleissner explains his own art in primer-simple terms: "I get a big kick out of nature, the moods and changes of the year and the weather. Effects of light have a great deal to do with the mood, so I make small (7 in. by 10 in.) watercolor sketches on the spot, before the light changes too much. The full-size painting I make afterwards in my studio. Drawing is very difficult for me-I don't know a thing about perspective-and I draw on tracing paper first so as not to mess up the texture...
Died. John Marin, 82, famed watercolor artist, regarded by many critics as America's greatest painter; at his seaside cottage in Addison, Me. A failure as a button salesman and later as an architect, at 28 he turned to art, opened his first big Manhattan exhibition in 1909, when he was 39. Marin scorned" formal training and academic styles ("If you put on the paint right...it will tell its own story"), saw his vivid land and seascapes sell for as much as $10,000 apiece, kept hard at work until shortly before his death...
...brush and furnace-bright colors. "Nobody else can do these things," he cries, pointing to the tortured convolutions on a nude drawing. "Who would dare? I am a being with antenna. I receive with my senses." But when the mood is right, he can turn to exquisite watercolor flowers, little "finger exercises" done with a delicate brush and a gardener's calm appreciation...
...tiny ink lines sensitively stitched and pyramided together. Claude Lorrain's Sermon on the Mount created a hilltop grove, shepherds and their flock, a wide and crowded harbor and a distant town, all with a little ink and broad watery washes. Peter Paul Rubens' delicately tinted watercolor of a farmyard was as tender and vivid as April grass. Thomas Gainsborough's charcoal sketches showed that he could read the face of a field as surely as a human expression...
...three small (12 in. high) drawings which Berlin's East zone police hauled away last week make a total of 36 known Griinewald sketches, and they show his unmistakable touch. While they are untitled, all three seem to be animated drawings of Biblical figures, swiftly brushed out in watercolor and filled in with shades of grey and white chalk. Says Berlin's Professor Will Grohmann, a top German art expert: "A sensational find...