Word: watercolor
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...watercolors weren’t always so carefully preserved. Until the late-nineteenth century, watercolor was considered an inferior medium, suitable only for preparatory sketches and amateur entertainment...
...Winslow Homer was one of the first artists to combat these misconceptions. He was also one of the first—and finest—artists to use watercolor as an independent medium. He is now renowned for his work with the form...
...degree of skill required for such painting contradicts the classification of watercolor as a low-commitment medium. “Extraordinary skill is required of the artist. It is a very difficult medium to work with, very demanding,” said Stebbins...
Unlike oil, where a mistake can be rectified with more paint, it is nearly impossible to hide a slip of the brush when working with translucent watercolor; consequently the artist’s hand is very evident in the work. “I love the fluency and immediacy,” Stebbins noted...
...next generation of watercolorists further redefined the bounds of the sub-genre. As Europeans like Kandinsky, Miró, and Klee experimented with abstract watercolor composition, American artists were “rediscovering and searching for their roots in the early watercolorists,” said Stebbins. Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, Charles Demuth and John Marin—all early experimenters with realism, abstraction and modernism—took on the yoke previously worn by Sargent and Homer...