Word: watercolored
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...master: blind beggars, stumpy as turnips, caterwauling for alms in the street; an old woman mumbling to her cat; a man in a clownish cap behind a railing, staring from the page with a dreadful mixture of rhetoric and solipsism, entitled simply Lecura - madness. To see Delacroix's watercolor sketch of a tiger, lying on some imaginary ridge in Algeria with the ripples of its striped back imitating the profile of mountains in the background, is to be reminded how that animal - an embodiment of natural force to the Romantics - was for Delacroix akin to a self-portrait...
...museum is also giving its due to watercolors with a 19th and 20th century watercolor show. Its diversity should satisfy museum audiences' curiosity developed from years of small glimpses of this for some reason neglected medium...
...shows depicting famous men have become something of a vogue in recent years. James Whitmore is an accomplished hand on this circuit. For several years he toured in Will Rogers, U.S.A. and delightfully evoked that pithy homespun humorist. But Rogers might almost be called a watercolor sketch compared with his Give 'Em Hell Harry!, which is as masterly as a fine portrait in oils...
This kind of relationship between the military and the aesthetic is almost unimaginable today: transpose it to America and you have a Pentagon lobbyist fiddling with a watercolor kit. We think of art as the product of mercantile classes. Yet one of the supreme moments in Japanese culture was almost wholly a military creation...
Greene's text is a touch parodic and patronizing, but Edward Ardizzone's marvelous new pen and ink and watercolor washes use the soft hues of Thomas Rowlandson to celebrate a detailed affection for Little Snoreing and its inhabitants...