The Great Age of British Watercolours, 1750-1880 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Great Age of British Watercolours, 1750-1880 write by Andrew Wilton. This book was released on 1993. The Great Age of British Watercolours, 1750-1880 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The revolution in watercolours of the later eighteenth century and its Victorian aftermath is acknowledged to be one of the greatest triumphs of British art. Its effect was to transform the modest tinted drawing of the topographer into a powerful and highly flexible means of expression for some of the Romantic era's greatest artists, among them Thomas Girtin, J.M.W. Turner and John Constable. The painters of the next generation were no less ambitious, and the range of subject-matter and technical inventiveness that was sustained for much of the Victorian period was to set a standard in watercolour painting that was without equal abroad." "In this magnificently illustrated survey of the great age of British watercolours, Andrew Wilton and Anne Lyles trace the development of attitudes to landscape and to the human figure in the landscape from 1750 to 1880. They show how once the traditional pen and ink drawing and its augmented washes of colour had been abandoned in order to paint directly in watercolours without pen outlines, the way was open for the powerful Romantic landscapes of the following decade and beyond, many of which were painted in the wild mountainous regions of Wales and Scotland." "During the nineteenth century, as the gilt-framed exhibition watercolour began to challenge the long-established oil painting in terms of size and in brilliance of colour and effect, the range of subject-matter was broadened to include scenes of country and town life from every part of Britain and, increasingly, from the Continent too. By mid-century the Near East was attracting many of the greatest Victorian watercolourists, including J. E. Lewis, David Roberts and Edward Lear. Other leading Victorians who regularly worked in watercolour include the Pre-Raphaelite painters John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt, and the American-born James McNeill Whistler, all of whom are included in this book."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
The Emergence of the Professional Watercolourist
The Emergence of the Professional Watercolourist - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Emergence of the Professional Watercolourist write by Greg Smith. This book was released on 2018-01-12. The Emergence of the Professional Watercolourist available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This title was first published in 2002: Draw ing on extensive primary research, Greg Smith describes the shifting cultural identities of the English watercolour, and the English watercolourist, at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century. His convincing narrative of the conflicts and alliances that marked the history of the medium and its practitioners during this period includes careful detail about the broader artistic context within which watercolours were produced, acquired and discussed. Smith calls into question many of the received assumptions about the history of watercolour painting. His account exposes the unsatisfactory nature of the traditional narrative of watercolour painting’s development into a ’high’ art form, which has tended to offer a celebratory focus on the innovations and genius of individual practitioners such as Turner and Girtin, rather than detailing the anxieties and aspirations that characterized the ambivalent status of the watercolourist. The Emergence of the Professional Watercolourist is published with the assistance of the Paul Mellon Foundation.
Great British Watercolors
Great British Watercolors - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Great British Watercolors write by Matthew Hargraves. This book was released on 2007-01-01. Great British Watercolors available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Paul Mellon (1907--1999) assembled one of the world’s greatest collections of British drawings and watercolors. In his memoirs he wrote of their “beauty and freshness… their immediacy and sureness of technique, their comprehensiveness of subject matter, their vital qualities, their Englishness.” This catalogue celebrating the centenary of Mellon's birth features eighty-eight outstanding watercolors from the fifty thousand works of art on paper with which he endowed the Yale Center for British Art. The selection spans the emergence of watercolor painting in the mid-18th century to its apogee in the mid-19th. These works highlight the diversity of British watercolors, showcasing both landscape and figurative works by some of the principal artists working in the medium, including Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Rowlandson, William Blake, and J. M.W. Turner.
Painting in Britain, 1530 to 1790
Painting in Britain, 1530 to 1790 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Painting in Britain, 1530 to 1790 write by Ellis Kirkham Waterhouse. This book was released on 1994-01-01. Painting in Britain, 1530 to 1790 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The field covered by this volume includes the work and influence of foreign-born painters such as Holbein and Van Dyck as well as native masters from Gower and Milliard to Gainsborough, Stubbs, and Sandby. We can follow step by step the development and flowering of British painting, and can compare, for example, the work of the English Sir Joshua Reynolds with the Scottish Allan Ramsay. Portrait and landscape, history piece, miniature, watercolour, there is a record of them all. The text is both scholarly and readable and the illustrations include well known examples of British painting and others seldom or never before reproduced between the covers of a book. This is the fifth edition of this work, newly enhanced with colour illustrations.
The Golden Age of Watercolours
The Golden Age of Watercolours - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Golden Age of Watercolours write by Eric Shanes. This book was released on 2001. The Golden Age of Watercolours available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Published to accompany the exhibition, 'The golden age of watercolours: the Hickman Bacon collection', held at Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 19 September 2001 - 6 January 2002.
