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| 2017 Photograph Dale DiMauro |
Earlier this week my wife and I visited Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. We learned they had a great exhibit of works on paper and they indeed do. They have many drawings and watercolors on exhibit dating back hundreds of years. Most of these pieces I had never seen before. However, there are watercolors by the likes of John Singer Sargent and Winslow Homer among others.
This red chalk drawing by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770) is titled Head of a Young Man. This was completed circa 1752-53. With the aid and collaboration of his two sons, they created more than 1,500 chalk studies. In addition, they created hundreds of pen and ink drawings.
What I noticed most about this drawing is his ability to capture the feelings of the individual through a minimal amount of drawing. This is in addition to depicting the characteristics of the face in part, through the conveyance of light.
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