The style of the depiction of mountains, rivers and seas associates the map with the Chinese landscape painting tradition known as 山水, shanshui (literally ‘mountain water’), in which the painting lets the observer enter, as it were, the landscape itself.Footnote 35 Likewise, the ...
Billy was very keen on putting God into our second manifesto Remodernism, and this succeeded in rousing even more hostility than non-painting artists not being artists. God, we discovered, is customarily squashed in the recesses of the contemporary collective shadow, causes even more offence than...
using egg whites to produce a finish resembling watercolour. Those that come from Arsinoe are more sophisticated, being painted in encaustic – a technique that involves mixing pigments with soft wax, applying it to slivers of sycamore tree or lime, and sealing the image...
the work is very instructive. We may refer to the manner and treatment of both oils and water colours. May of the exhibits are successful efforts to portray the charm of colour and subtlety of things seen in the open air. We