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VITEBSK, 2 June (BelTA) – The International Biennale of Watercolor Painting “Vada + Farba” (Water + Color) will feature 200 works by 77 artists from 11 countries in Polotsk. The third exhibition will open at the Art Gallery of the National Polotsk Historical and Cultural Museum-Reserve on 3 June, the head of the gallery Larisa Lysenko told BelTA. The museum-reserve and the Belarusian Union of Artists are the organizers of this project. The topic of the third biennale is “space of watercolor”. Interest in the international project was shown by the creative unions of artists. Therefore the exhibition will feature the best work of reputable artists. Polotsk residents and guests will have a chance to get familiar with the watercolor schools of Denmark, Ireland, Italy, and Finland. Slovak artists will present their works in Polotsk of the first time. Artists from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania and Latvia have become regular participants. The biennale popularizes art, watercolors, introduces viewers to the latest trends in this art. The next day after the opening of the biennale, on 4 June, artists, art critics, art historians will meet at the symposium-conference “Watercolor as a creative space" to discuss issues of contemporary art, get familiar with the trends of national watercolor schools. The exhibition will run until 7 August. On 18 October the exhibition will open at the Palace of Arts in Minsk. Catalogs of the Third International Watercolors Biennale “Water + Color” will be published by that time. Watercolor painting technique dates back from China. Despite the fact that it was known in China from the second century AD, in Europe this technique was not seriously perceived until the middle of the 19th century. Such famous artists as Eugene Delacroix, Paul Signac, Paul Cezanne, Wassily Kandinsky contributed a lot to the development of watercolors. Revival of watercolor began in the late 20th century.

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