Gouache

The painting The Jungle by Wilfredo Lam was created in 1943 C.E. The medium used for the painting was gouache on paper, which is mounted on canvas. This work of art hangs in The Museum of Modern Art in New York City, New York. The color of blue is used throughout the painting, along with a few strokes of yellow, orange, and green. Many bamboo plants and leaves are shown in the background suggesting the setting on a farm or plantation and show the use of organic shapes. Several distorted figures…

later found so necessary to his art. There were odd bursts of painting activity recorded in his meticulously kept record book, for example about 1911, when he was living at Northchurch in the Chilterns. Then several works are recorded, mostly in gouache, of which the large and rather striking House with green shutters (cat. no. 2) is a rare surviving example. The six windows, all wide open to exactly the same level and revealing shadowy interiors, focus the attention, and by their arbitrariness…

Works of literature frequently concentrate on the conflict between evil and justice. But inside this more broad struggle, the writer constantly showcases a subject's own individual search for justice. Most of the time, justice is defined as looking for the truth. However, authors are no strangers to adding complexity and depth as well as hidden (or noticeable) costs to finding the truth. Furthermore, the writer can play with a character’s motivation to search for justice. In the story of…

Camille Pissarro are several painters and sculptors that have earned strong reputations, both in the artistic circles of St. Thomas and galleries throughout the world. These artists include contemporary Impressionist painter, Janine Wesselmann; local gouache painter, Sylvia Kahn; and renowned St. Thomas oil painter, Jan Dunn. The gallery also sells a wide variety of prints - including the work of Pissarro and local artists - small sculptures and Caribbean-influenced batik…

Slide 1 This is Carmen Lomas Garza a Chicana artist who depicts a cultural lifestyle of your everyday Hispanic family. Garza’s artwork places me in a trance of my own life as a child and now as an adult. Her paintings take me to a wonderful place which is mi familia. Slide 2 Carmen Lomas Garza was born on September 12, 1948 in Kingsville, Texas. Where she and her family resided in a tight-knit Hispanic community where both English and Spanish was spoken. However, Spanish was not allowed to…

He uses bold colors and layering of acrylics, gouache, and enamel to create unforgettable paintings with intriguing narratives. He paints his Day of the Dead art on anything from instruments to clay boards to antiques. When he is finished with the piece he then builds a custom wood frame to complete…

Sensing the Transcontinental Railroad Clang, clang, whooo whooo, hiss, hiss, chug chug chug, all words found ringing through the award winning historical picturebook by Brian Floca, appropriately titled “Locomotive”. The story is an explanation of the operations of the first locomotive on the transcontinental railroad. The words convey the temporal information about all of the workings of a locomotive, describing in detail the decisions and actions made to run the train, and allow it to…

Archibald Prize winner for 2013 is Hugo by Del Kathryn Barton. It's a watercolor, gouache and acrylic painting on canvas of the Australian actor Hugo Weaving. It's a large painting sized, 200cm x 180cm. The painting is a portrait of Weaving holding a cat with a weeping lilli pilli and a intricate and colorful background. Weavings facial expressions seem serious but natural and he gazes off to his right. Barton painted the portrait in her studio over 5 months and 4 sittings in 2013. Barton…

1. Figure 4.3, Going Home by Jacob Lawrence. This piece was created in 1946, and was painted with gouache, which is an opaque type of watercolor. I personally did not like this piece, I’m not a fan of the medium used, but nevertheless I found it interesting. In my opinion, the low value and intensity of the yellows and greens are unappealing, I think they make this train or bus seem outdated and old, or just dirty. But I do enjoy the contrasting red and green, and the warm feeling that the…

Out of all the artists depicted in the documentary, I’ve found the work of Cai Guo-Qiang to be the most interesting and skillful. I love how he uses gun powder, a material in which he calls “uncontrollable” and “destructive”, to create unique pieces of work. The art is in both in the inferno presentation and the left-over design on the paper. The way the paper yellows and the flow of lines in his work resembles a lot like the ancient Chinese artwork on scrolls. Instead of just drawing out and…