Word: watercolored
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...also the cloud studies and several of his grandest oils, such as The Lock, 1822-24. There are also such painters as John Sell Cotman, Samuel Palmer, Francis Towne and Thomas Girtin, whose images of landscape exhale the sweet breath of exact vision through its quintessential medium, the watercolor sketch, while the apocalyptic side of English Romanticism gets full play in William Blake and John ("Mad") Martin...
...apartment house is a wealthy Englishman named Percival Bartlebooth, whose past, along with those of dozens of other tenants, gradually emerges. In 1925, Bartlebooth embarks on the rigid program he has mapped out for the rest of his life. He spends ten years learning how to paint watercolors. For the next 20 years he travels the globe, rendering one seaport scene roughly every two weeks and sending each painting to Paris, where a craftsman turns the artwork into a jigsaw puzzle. From 1955 to 1975, Bartlebooth, back in his apartment, solves each puzzle and then has the reassembled watercolor shipped...
...much that is evocative in the new work. In the preludic "Dawn" the themes gradually emerge and coalesce, blaze luminously and then recede. "Daylight" is a scurrying scherzo marked by buzzing strings, hiccuping brass and chattering woodwinds. The slow movement, "Dusk," is the work's emotional center, a lambent watercolor of uncommon beauty. After this, the finale comes as something of a letdown. The symphony's clear textures give way to a muddiness that cannot be entirely justified by the "Darkness" sobriquet. Harbison rejected his first draft as too light in mood, but the symphony now ends diffidently rather than...
...illustration and often fails to transcend it. Not a few of the images of Helga lying naked on a bed or tramping resolutely through the snow in her Loden coat have the banal neatness of things done for a women's magazine. Some of them, like the technically impressive watercolor In the Orchard, 1974, are as deadly in their "sensitiveness" as greeting cards. But there are some fine drawings here, moments of vision caught with attentiveness and precision, that have a lot more visual oomph than the more laboriously finished works. And two or three of the paintings are marvels...
Dave, a.k.a. "Birdboy," spends hours with these toothpick bones, sorting and classifying, scratching his fingers as he polishes and examines. Eventually these ossified puzzles flesh out as the vivid watercolor aviary that decorates his room. I envy his tangible academic world--intellectual pursuits he can touch and feel...