Anna Fidler, Transformation Collaboration, 2021, gouache, and flashe on handmade grid paper, courtesy of the artist.
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Flashe Paint
Flashe paint was first developed in 1954 by the French for stage scenery painters. The vinyl emulsion binder in the paint is more flexible and thick than that found in acrylic paint. This leads to a smoother, more solid finish with less visible brush stroke lines. It’s often used as an underpaint for oil paintings because of its matte finish. It’s also good for mixing because of the high pigment content: a little paint goes a long way. As it was originally designed for the stage, the paint is non-reflective, making scans and photographs of the art more neat and vibrant. Artist Anna Fidler uses a mix of gouache and flashe paint to create vibrant works with opaque, flat color. Learn more about the properties of flashe paint with the link below, and explore Fidler’s work in the Main and Heiter Galleries of the Schneider Museum of Art as a part of our exhibition Intuitive Nature: Geometric Roots & Organic Foundations.
https://www.jacksonsart.com/blog/2020/04/03/flashe-paints-intense-flat-opaque-colour/
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Richard Prince, Untitled (cowboy), 1998, ektacolor photograph, courtesy of a private collection.
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Ektacolor Photography
Ektacolor is a type of ink created by Kodak Cameras available in both pigment and dye based applications. Cyan, magenta, yellow, black, and white pigments are heavily refined to reduce light scatter and allow for thinner ink layers when dry. This means images last longer and come out with richer colors. These vibrant colors can be seen in Richard Prince’s piece Untitled (cowboy). Prince uses Ektacolor film to capture a section of a popular image of a cowboy from a 1970s Marlboro advertisement. As an appropriation artist, he uses recognizable images, alters them slightly, and puts them into new contexts. Learn more about the benefits of using Ektacolor ink, and see Prince’s piece on display at the Schneider Museum of Art’s Entry Gallery.
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Claude Monet, La Seine á Vétheuil, 1881, o.il on canvas, courtesy of a private collection.
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Claude Monet
Considered the founder of the impressionist movement, Oscar-Claude Monet is one of the most recognizable names in art history. He was born in 1840 in Paris, France and died in 1928. People in France had been sketching outside since before Monet’s time, but he was one of the first artists in the public eye to create entire paintings, start to finish, outdoors. Although he was encouraged to get a formal art education, he quickly found that the techniques being taught were dated, and left to create his own style. The minimalistic and “unfinished” brush strokes of his work gave the “impression” of a piece, thus creating a new category of art called impressionism. An innovative artist of the time and influential even after his death, Monet’s legacy is memorialized globally in highly esteemed museums and art collections. Learn more about Monet and his life with the video link below, and see his piece La Seine á Vétheuil in the Schneider Museum of Art’s Entry Gallery.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP1uXYT8n_M
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