What is watercolor?
A term that refers to both the resulting artwork and the medium. It is a method of painting where the paints used are made of pigments that are suspended in water soluble "vehicle". Watercolors appear luminous and are transparent because the pigments used are laid down in pure form and few fillers obscure pigment colors. By adding Chinese white, watercolor can be made to look opaque.
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ARTWORKS RELATED TO WATERCOLOR
Donald Sultan
Lantern Flowers - Blue/Black background, 2017
Limited Edition Print
Watercolor
USD 4,350
Donald Sultan
Lantern Flowers - Yellow/Black background, 2017
Limited Edition Print
Watercolor
USD 3,750
Donald Sultan
Lantern Flowers - Red/Black background, 2017
Limited Edition Print
Watercolor
USD 4,350
Donald Sultan
Lantern Flower, 2012
Limited Edition Print
Watercolor
USD 14,250
Al Held
Camerata XII, 1989
Drawing / Watercolor
Watercolor
USD 30,000 - 40,000
Cesar Baldaccini
Friendship, C.1970
Drawing / Watercolor
Watercolor
EUR 4,950
Chuck Close
Leslie (1,140), 1973
Drawing / Watercolor
Watercolor
USD 95,000 - 110,000
Robin Winters
Curtain, man with pointed cap, rope, 1981/1982
Drawing / Watercolor
Watercolor
EUR 3,600
Paul Jenkins
Phenomeana parcinal imperative, 1982
Drawing / Watercolor
Watercolor
USD 11,900
Per Kirkeby
Untitled,
Drawing / Watercolor
Watercolor
EUR 7,900
Italian version for Neo Expressionism that refers to an art movement that moved across Italy and some other parts of Western Europe between 1970s and 1980s. It simply means beyond avant-garde. The art movement came as a response to conceptual art's explosion that got many expression mediums by reintroducing emotion and reviving painting. Transvanguardia marked a turning point back to mythic imagery and figurative art which at the time, was rediscovered.
Naïve art describes a style of artwork which is unsophisticated and simple. It usually describes the artwork of artists who have not trained in a formal academy or art school. The style is unsophisticated, simple, lacking advanced art techniques; appearing that a child made it.
Surrealism began in the 1920s with artists and writers whose works aimed to reveal the unconscious to unleash subconscious imagination, and explore unusual imagery. Bringing the unconscious into rational life was one key thematic goal of this group influenced by Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis theories.
