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Aquarelle: The French term for the process and product of painting in transparent watercolor.

 


AQUARELLE - The technique of drawing or painting with transparent watercolor, or a piece of work made this way. French for "watercolor." ...

Aquarelle
'Watercolor' in French, referring to the drawing or painting with transparent watercolor.
Aquatint ...

Aquarelle: Painting which uses watercolour washes.
Armature: Metal framework - usually wire - used by sculptors as a skeleton on which to model clay or wax.

Art Glossary: Aquarelle
An explanation of what the painting term 'aquarelle' means.
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An explanation of what is meant by the art term "analogous colors".

He showed fifteen oil paintings, mostly portraits, along with some aquarelles and drawings. It was the oils that would capture the critics' eye; Rothko's use of rich fields of colors moved beyond Avery's influence.

Returning to New York, unhampered by his lack of family support, Rothko had his first large one-man show at the Contemporary Arts Gallery, showing 15 oil paintings, mostly portraits, along with some aquarelles and drawings.

1874 Possibly Exhibition of Paintings, Engravings, Drawings, Aquarelles, and Works of Household Art, in the Cincinnati Industrial Exposition, Cincinnati, 1874, no. 318, as unidentified Copley Portrait.

Aquarelle: a drawing usually in transparent watercolor.
Aquatint: A print processed like an etching, except that the ground or certain areas are covered with a solution of asphalt, resin, or salts which, when heated, ...

He rarely used oils, preferring an immaterial substance (aquarelles, pastels, gouache) to express the spiritual content of his work.

Using aquarelles, he created a vivid record of his Nazi-era experiences. In the 1970s, he completed the chronological Buchenwald Series from his memories, printed pictures and personal photographs of the former camp.

It was a highly stable, lightfast colourant, first formulated in 1821 by Hopfner, but not available generally until 1860 when it was reintroduced by George Rowney in England, as a paint-hue for oils and aquarelle watercolour painting.

See also: Painting, Fine art, Expression, School, Acrylic

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