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CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO WORLDS Deena S. Shakir ’08, who visited Iraq twice as a toddler, said she only has "watercolor memories" of the land where her parents were born...
...clutch of key Futurist artworks further testifies to that movement's rapturous celebration of the machine age. Typical in its depiction of repetitive, colliding shapes is Giacomo Balla's 1913 monochrome watercolor Automobile + speed + light. Futurism's glorification of man-made power was not politically innocent; it fed directly into the country's rising nationalism, a cause ardently embraced by the poet-pilot Gabriele D'Annunzio. He became the figurehead of the Irredentists, who wanted once-Italian territories returned to their homeland. The show includes such pathos-laden d'Annunzio memorabilia as the tattered logbook he kept when he drove...
FILL IN THE BLANKS If any pigmentation has been lost in the rip, the gaps are covered with putty or another filler and then coated with non-oil-based paint--such as watercolor--which can be easily removed if it begins to discolor.ET VOILA! Hensick doubts that the finished repairs will be visible to casual observers: "With someone like Monet, there are so many different colors and so much texture that it's easy to camouflage any fixes in the painting itself." ET VIOLA! Hensick doubts that the finished repairs will be visible to casual observers: "With someone like Monet...
...regalia of the ruling classes. The elderly Reynolds was still president of the Royal Academy when the 14-year-old Turner was admitted to the Academy's school. But Turner would have been a disaster as a portraitist. He could draw as well as the best of them. In watercolor he could produce something like molecular detail, notwithstanding that one of his typical techniques was to soak the entire sheet in water, rub in raw pigment, blot it with rags and sponges and then painstakingly work up finer detail within the misty blooms of color. Yet as he matured...
Turner didn't always deal in turmoil. His great hero was Claude Lorrain, the 17th century French landscape painter who invented formats like the idealized harbor, places flanked by classical piles, where a setting sun bears down gently on the horizon. In Caernarvon Castle, an early watercolor flushed with orange twilight, Turner took Lorrain's tranquil model and invested it with the nostalgia and high-minded melancholy of English Romanticism...