About The Artist:
Ernst Wilhelm Nay
Ernst W. Nay was a colourist. He thought through colour and translated his concepts through the use of colour. After the Second World War he used colour to move beyond figurative painting. “Colour, as an artistic value which needs to be conceived with the spirit, is so immeasurable, so unpredictable”, the artist summed up six months before his death, “that any painter who conceives starting unequivocally from colour is forced...
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About The Medium:
Aquatint
An etching process in which tone is created by treating a plate with fine particles of acid resistant material (like powder resin) and then placing the plate in an acid bath. The acid bites into the plate between the grains of resin and when printed, the mass of tiny spots produces a textured area with tonal effects similar to watercolor wash.