Watercolor

Watercolor (US) or watercolour (UK), also aquarelle from French, is a painting method. A watercolor is the medium or the resulting artwork, in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water soluble vehicle. The traditional and most common support for watercolor paintings is paper; other supports include papyrus, bark papers, plastics, vellum or leather, fabric, wood, and canvas. In East Asia, watercolor painting with inks is referred to as brush painting or scroll painting. In Chinese, Korean, and Japanese painting it has been the dominant medium, often in monochrome black or browns. India, Ethiopia and other countries also have long traditions. Finger-painting with watercolor paints originated in China.

Impressonism

Definition : Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement that began as a loose association of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence in the 1870s and 1880s. The name of the movement is derived from the title of a Claude Monet work, Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant), which provoked the critic Louis Leroy to coin the term in a satiric review published in Le Charivari.

Characteristics of Impressionist paintings include visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, the inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience, and unusual visual angles. The emergence of Impressionism in the visual arts was soon followed by analogous movements in other media which became known as Impressionist music and Impressionist literature.

Impressionism also describes art created in this style, but outside of the late 19th century time period.

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Art Symbolism

Symbolist painting emphasizes on fantasy and imagination in their depiction of objects. The artists of the movement often uses types of metaphors and symbols to suggest a subject and favored mystical and occult themes. The movement strived to depict the symbols of ideas which were influenced by Romanticism and Pre Raphaelite Brotherhood. The movement originated in France and spread across Europe. Symbolists were opposed to the visual realism of the Impressionists and serious nature of the Industrial Age. Their aim was to portray mysterious and ambiguous interpretations of emotions and ideas by using unobvious symbols. Some artists, which included Puvis de Chavannes, Moreau, and Redon, borrowed their imagery from Symbolist writings. These works would often contain grotesque and fantastical imagery such as severed heads, monsters, and spirits. Their works would sometimes contain additional references to the Bible and ancient myths. Other Symbolists took a more traditional approach, using lines and colors to produce emotional effects. The Symbolist movement was important to the development of the Surrealism.





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Brian's Painting and Description

The Red heart represents the Bravery my mom has.
The Blue background signifies calmness.
White Roses represents Purity of my mother.
The plaster shows her protecting me like a plaster. One day, that plaster will be gone.
The cracks shows my wounds that she fixed with her plaster represented by the plaster.

Wei Jie's Poem

She is the one that keeps me strong
She is where all my strength comes from

No matter what trouble I may be
she is always there for me

She is the one that gives me warmth
Whenever I'm in times of frost

She is my mother
and I will always love her