Browsing Category: watercolour

  • Peter Wächtler, Untitled (2013)

    The perversity on display here is not the a tergo position adopted by the blonde mistress or the rake so drunk he has fallen out of the large double bed. No the perversity is that Wächtler uses a medium as gentle as watercolour to incriminate the bad behaviour of this fornicating sot and his willing …

    October 7, 2014

  • John Cage, River Rocks and Smoke 4/11/90 No.1

    The universe, it seems, has good taste. Here is a painting it did. Or rather, here is a painting John Cage allowed to happen, letting the I-Ching direct his brushstrokes if true to form. Observe the wispy sfmuato effect, created by students with burning straw. Look at that delicate use of colour and the almost …

    May 6, 2011