SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture -by Gautam Shah
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Arthur Melville (1858–1904) was a Scottish painter, better remembered for outstanding watercolour craft or technique. He had a revolutionary impact on watercolour art form. The colour-sense which is so notable a feature of Melville's work developed during his travels to Persia, Egypt and Turkey. He had formal art training at as a full time student at the Royal Scottish Academy School and later at Académie Julian, Paris.
He used dabs of pigment on wet paper and blotting them with a sponge (called ‘blottesque'). To convey strong Middle Eastern light, he developed a technique of using watercolour on a base of wet paper with gouache applied to it.
He had fascination for brilliant light and with it created dramatic compositions of Eastern life and Venetian scenes. He also painted several portraits in oils and a powerful and in later part of his life tried religious themes.
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