Event Item: 00242

Watercolour

Exhibition: 16th Feb 2011 to 21st Aug 2011

Source: http://www.tate.org.uk

Extract
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...