Watercolor Through the Eyes of Masters

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CLASS 1: INTRODUCTION TO WATERCOLOR

From Cave Paintings to Chinese ink painting to the European Renaissance

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Class 2: EARLY ENGLISH SCHOOL
Early traditional approaches to watercolor painting including artists like Alexander Cozens, Thomas Girtin and early J.M.W. Turner

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Class 3: J.M.W. TURNER

Examining the British master painter J.M.W. Turner and how his style and technique changed over time

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Class 4: WINSLOW HOMER AND OTHER 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN PAINTERS

Focusing on American watercolorist Winslow Homer and his contemporaries during 19th century America

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Class 5: IMPRESSIONIST WATERCOLORS

Investigating the way painters such as Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Paul Cézanne approached color with watercolor

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Class 6: J.S. Sargent

Focusing on the works and techniques of master American watercolorist, John Singer Sargent

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CLASS 7 : ART NOUVEAU AND EXPRESSIONIST WATERCOLORS

Exploring how artists such as Auguste Rodin, Arthur Miller and Charles Rennie MacKintosh adapted their work through watercolor around the turn of the 19th to 20 century

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CLASS 8: NIHONGA PAINTING

Focusing on specifically the ink works of early Nihonga painting by artists such as Takeuchi Seiho, Kawai Gyokudô and Yokoyama Taikan

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CLASS 9: MODERN AND ABSTRACT

Looking at artists such as Pablo Picasso, Georgia O'Keefe, Paul Klee and others to illustrate the diverse ways of painting in watercolor during the 20th century.

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CLASS 10: ANDREW WYETH

Examining artists working today in fine art, illustration and graphic novels

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