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| Indian Art's Celebration of Color |
| Indian Art's Celebration of Color and Technique
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 16-November-2007
4:44:31 AM
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Nothing quite compares with the quality of the color found in traditional Indian miniatures. It is intense but also fresh. It can be tender or brilliant, soft or sharp, bright or shady, delicate or opulent.
"Domains of Wonder, Masterworks of Indian Painting," an exhibition at the San Diego Museum of Art, presents many outstanding examples. The catalog of the exhibition intriguingly provides a detailed and revealing description of the techniques of Indian painters. They used what in the West is called gouache, or opaque watercolor. Each painting went through numerous phases, beginning with drawing that was progressively refined. Two coats of translucent white primer, like sheets of tracing paper, covered the lines of the drawing, enabling the artist to gradually firm up the drawing to ready it for the color.
The surface to be painted was burnished. The first colors were applied thinly and flatly. The paper was then turned upside down "on a flat surface - painters speak sometimes of having flat, thin
Where:
Dallas Museum of Art,
1717 North Harwood,
Dallas,
TX
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Event Start Date : 18-Nov-2007
Event End Date : 27-Jan-2008
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By : Desi |
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