Mantegna to Matisse: Master Drawings from The Courtauld

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Mantegna to Matisse: Master Drawings from The Courtauld

Postby jasperjoffe » Thu Aug 16, 2012 1:54 pm

Good show, nice to see all the lines. Highlights: a rubens of his new 16 yo wife. A soft ingres. Some British watercolours. A mass of styles. Almost makes you want to draw.

http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/gallery/exhibitions/2012/master-drawings/index.shtml
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Re: Mantegna to Matisse: Master Drawings from The Courtauld

Postby CAP » Sat Aug 18, 2012 11:40 am

Mmm it's hard to know where to draw the line (so to speak) between drawing and watercolour. ;)

It's like pastels and coloured pencil. Sometimes you see them classified as painting. Then there's brush and ink 'drawings' - or 'paintings'? If you use a brush is it still drawing? If you use more than one colour is it still drawing? Drawing is a tricky category...
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