Watercolor Artist - USA (2020-04)

8 Watercolor artist | APRIL 2020

BurningQuestion

Rya n Fox

VincentvanGogh’sWheatFieldWithCypresses

isoneofmyveryfavoritelandscapes.Each

carefullyplannedbrushstrokecreates

intentionalmovementandenergywithlight

bouncingoffthethick,impastostrokes.The

paintingusesasimpleanalogouscolor

schemewithafewspotsofredincluded.And

I thoughtwatercolorpaintingsrequiredalot

ofpreplanning!

What’s your

all-time favorite

landscape painting?

Wheat Field With Cypresses

(1889; oil on canvas, 28¾ x36¾ )

by Vincent van Gogh

THE ANNENBERG FOUNDATION GIFT, 1993

THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART

Thomas W Schaller

Caspar David Friedrich’s 1818 painting, Wanderer Above

the Sea of Fog, has haunted and inspired me since

I was a child. The juxtaposition of realism and

imagination—of the implied and the stated—is so

evocative. It’s the collision of earth, man, sky and time

that allows viewers to write their own story—to actually

wander to the edges of possibility and beyond.

Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog

(ca 1817; oil on canvas, 38½ x29)

by Caspar David Friedrich

KUNSTHALLE HAMBURG