Author: Andrew Wilton
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
ISBN: 9783791318790
Category : Watercolor painting
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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 leadingVictorians 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.
The Great Age of British Watercolours, 1750-1880
Author: Andrew Wilton
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
ISBN: 9783791318790
Category : Watercolor painting
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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 leadingVictorians 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.
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
ISBN: 9783791318790
Category : Watercolor painting
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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 leadingVictorians 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.
British Watercolors: 1750-1950
Author: Katherine Coombs
Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
British Watercolours explores the many ways in which British artists have employed this versatile medium.
Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
British Watercolours explores the many ways in which British artists have employed this versatile medium.
Great British Watercolors
Author: Matthew Hargraves
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300116586
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300116586
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
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.
The Golden Age of Watercolours
Author: Eric Shanes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
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.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
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.
British Watercolours and Drawings from Rowlandson to Riley
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
British Watercolours, 1750 to 1850
Author: Andrew Wilton
Publisher: Phaidon Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
William Blake, John Constable, and Joseph Mallord William Turner are among the ten British watercolorists whose works are analyzed and reproduced in color and black and white.
Publisher: Phaidon Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
William Blake, John Constable, and Joseph Mallord William Turner are among the ten British watercolorists whose works are analyzed and reproduced in color and black and white.
British Watercolours
Author: Tate Gallery
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Watercolor painting
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Watercolor painting
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
The Watercolorist's Complete Guide to Color
Author: Tom Hill
Publisher: North Light Books
ISBN: 9780891348542
Category : Color guides
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Starting with the principles of colour theory, Hill presents an analysis of 40 popular pigments with important descriptions of colour temperature, transparency or opacity and degree of stain.'
Publisher: North Light Books
ISBN: 9780891348542
Category : Color guides
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Starting with the principles of colour theory, Hill presents an analysis of 40 popular pigments with important descriptions of colour temperature, transparency or opacity and degree of stain.'
Concise Catalogue of British Watercolours and Drawings: Text
Author: Manchester City Art Gallery
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
British Watercolours from the Oppé Collection
Author: Tate Gallery
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artists' preparatory studies
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Published to accompany exhibition held at the Tate Gallery 10/9 - 30/11 1997.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artists' preparatory studies
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Published to accompany exhibition held at the Tate Gallery 10/9 - 30/11 1997.