“Ephemeral Visions” – New Brunswick Art Salon – Water Color and Mixed Media

Watercolor, as a translucent medium, is wonderful for capturing the fleeting, flickering qualities of light, emphasizing not only the beauty of light, but also the transience. Yet it is a remarkably versatile material, equally capable of clear colors and muddy textures. The continued use of watercolor speaks to its enduring beauty and utility. To make art today, and to do so with a medium as ancient as watercolor, is to engage in conversation with humans, theories and practices from millennia ago. Each artist must grapple with the question of what it means to make art today and what it means to make modern art. Art, and especially watercolor art, captures not only the passing moment of whatever is depicted, but the moment of history we …

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