To become familiar with the history of watercolor;
To become familiar with various watercolor artists throughout time;
To make connections between watercolor purposes and techniques from long ago to its uses today.
Water color painting was used for prehistoric cave paintings, in many Egyptian wall and funerary paintings, Chinese silk paintings Western medieval Europe monastery paintings. Albrecht Durer was considered the first watercolor master due to his sophisticated techniques. In Italy (1494-95) Durer worked with Giovianni Bellini and started landscape painting. One of his famous works Alpine Landscape/Welsch Pirg shows and example of his original style of the “wash technique”.
Albrecht Durer “Alpine Landscape” 1495
Durer would layer transparent washes to create the forms (such as waves) through an “atmospheric space”. Other water color masters were Anthony Van Dyck and, who painted landscapes in watercolor as studies and backgrounds for his oil paintings and portraits, and Claude Lorraine, who was commissioned by the King and Pope for his landscapes of Rome.
Anthony Van Dyck, ‘Landscape’, 1632
Claude Lorrain, View of the Acqua Acetosa, 1645
Watercolor began to peak during the 1700s and academies began to introduce painting to officers. Women also were able to take part and colored in black and white prints with watercolor and by the 1800s painting and sketching became the education of upper class women. In 1970s-80s, an interest in watercolor reemerged from academies and art collectors. Today, watercolor painting is more environmentally friendly with more “advanced” supplies, such as paints that are more light-fast/fade resistant and ongoing experiments with varnishes and glazes that will protect paintings.
"History-Overview." Watercolor Watercolor Painting Watermedia History Contemporary Exhibitions. Web. 18 May 2014.
"HISTORY OF WATERCOLOUR." CSPWC English History of the Medium. Web. 18 May 2014.
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