Watercolour
16 February - 21 August 2011
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| Howard Hodgkin
A Storm 1977
Tate © Howard Hodgkin
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WATERCOLOUR
16 February – 21 August 2011
Watercolour takes us back to the origins of watercolour in the form of
medieval illumination and traces its history thereafter, showing how the
increasing portability of the medium allowed artists to travel with
their paints to far-flung regions, documenting what they saw, from new
fauna and flora to on-the-spot recording of new landscapes and events.
Before the advent of photography, watercolour was the medium of choice
for eye-witness evidence. Acknowledging the association of watercolour
with British artists such as William Blake, JMW Turner and Thomas
Girtin, and examining it within a modern and contemporary context in the
work of artists such as Patrick Heron and Tracey Emin, the show goes
much further in presenting a medium which has long had a huge range and
appeal; for amateurs and professionals, for show and for intimacy, for
realistic representation and for hallucinatory or abstract creation.
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