Word: watercolor
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...this letter Ye made a watercolor sketch of what had happened to his church and hospital. It is reproduced here...
...smoking, professorial Frenchman is suspicious of modern art, thinks it includes too many "new movements." He does most of his work at a massive oak table in a quiet, residential district of southern Paris, making pen sketches for future paintings. For every 50 or so sketches, he does one watercolor. Every few years he produces enough paintings to have a show like last week's at Paris' Louis Carré Gallery...
...Paris was liberated, he copied a watercolor sketch by Poussin "as an exercise in self-discipline." He greeted the first American soldiers who came to his studio with kisses, exclaiming: "You two are so lovely...
...paints nature as knowingly as Winslow Homer and with even greater freedom (TIME, Jan. 9). As Washington's Duncan Phillips put it in the exhibition catalogue, Marin "is one of the most gifted and important painters since Cezanne and perhaps the best of all masters of watercolor. An individualist and mostly self-taught and indifferent to theories, he sought at the outset of his career for abbreviated personal symbols of color and line-a green triangle for a pine, a zigzag for a wave, symbols comparable to Chinese characters...
...music he draws forth. Fredenthal had spent hours in an NBC radio engineer's booth, watching the great man conduct orchestra rehearsals. Toscanini moved too fast to catch in an orthodox sketch, so Fredenthal made multiple-image sketches that recorded a number of recurrent gestures simultaneously. The resulting watercolor bore some relation to Marcel Duchamp's famed Nude Descending a Staircase and some to Gjon Mili's stroboscopic photographs. It had more warmth than either...