This document provides an overview of various watercolor artists from the 16th to 21st centuries and their styles. It focuses on describing several artists in more depth, including Gustave Moreau, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Andrew Wyeth, and Georgia O'Keeffe. The document also outlines a master study assignment where students choose a painting to copy and analyze the artist's technique, and then do a second painting in the color palette of the master artist studied.

1. Master Studies
Glenn Hirsch, Instructor

2. Style determines technique

3. Watercolor Artists
16th century
Albrecht Dürer
17th century
Claude Lorraine
18th century
William Blake
19th century
Frederic Remington
Gustave Moreau
Honoré Daumier
James Whistler
Joseph Turner
John Singer Sargent
Paul Cézanne
Thomas Moran
Winslow Homer
20th century
Andrew Wyeth
Charles Burchfield
Charles Demuth
Edward Hopper
Emile Nolde
Georgia O'Keefe
Georges Rouault
Graham Sutherland
Joseph Raphael
John Marin
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Kees van Dongen
Max Beckmann
Maurice de Vlaminck
Paul Klee
Raoul Dufy
Vincent Van Gogh
21st century
Elizabeth Peyton
Louise Stanley
Robert Bechtle
Each artist
has their
own style
and
technique

4. Gustave Moreau
(1826 – 1898)
French painter who appealed to the imagination in creating
mythological scenes.
He was part of the "Symbolist" movement which
emphasized spirituality, and dreams over naturalism and
realism.

5. Gustave Moreau (1826 – 1898)

6. Gustave Moreau (1826 – 1898)

7. Gustave Moreau (1826 – 1898)

8. Gustave Moreau (1826 – 1898)

9. Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
(1884 – 1976)
German expressionist painter and printmaker interested in
"primitive" art, and the expression of extreme emotion
through high-keyed color.

10. Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884 – 1976)

11. Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884 – 1976)

12. Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884 – 1976)

13. Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884 – 1976)

14. Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884 – 1976)

15. Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884 – 1976)

16. Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (self-portrait)

17. Andrew Wyeth
(1917-2009)
Wyeth said that although he was thought of as a realist, he thought of
himself as an abstractionist.

18. Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009)

19. Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009)

20. Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009)

21. Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009)

22. Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009)

23. Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009)

24. Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009)

25. Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009)

26. Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 – 1986)
Her paintings emphasized abstract form
and mystical light.

27. Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 – 1986)

28. Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 – 1986)

29. Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 – 1986)

30. Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 – 1986)

31. Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 – 1986)

32. To study Georgia O’Keeffe’s technique,
you paint a copy

33. MASTER STUDY ASSIGNMENT
copy a painting and pay attention to detail
choose something easy to draw but challenging to paint
THEN AS HOMEWORK:
do a second painting
Your own composition and subject matter
But use the color palette of the master you just studied

34. Study of Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and student response

35. Study of Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and student response

36. Study of Emile Nolde and student response

37. Study of John Singer Sargent and student response

38. Study of Georgia O’Keeffe and student response

39. Study of Charles Demuth and student response

40. Study of Charles Demuth and student response

41. Study of Winslow Homer and student response

42. Study of Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and student response

43. Study of John Singer Sargent and student response

44. Study of Edward Hopper and student response

45. Study of Andrew Wyeth and student response