Hawthorne on Painting (eBook)

Charles W. Hawthorne (Autor)

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2013
96 Seiten
Dover Publications (Verlag)
978-0-486-31874-5 (ISBN)

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Hawthorne was an American painter who founded the Cape Cod School of Art. This work, collected from notes taken by his actual students, offers hundreds of direct lessons, ideas, suggestions, and more.

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Look around and select a subject that you can see painted. That will paint itself. Do the obvious thing before you do the superhuman thing. It may have been accidental, but you knew enough to let this alone. The good painter is always making use of accidents. Never try to repeat a success. Swing a bigger brush — you don’t know what fun you are missing. For 31 years, Charles Hawthorne spoke in this manner to students of his famous Cape Cod School of Art. The essence of that instruction has been collected from students’ notes and captured in this book, retaining the personal feeling and the sense of on-the-spot inspiration of the original classroom. Even though Hawthorne is addressing himself to specific problems in specific paintings, his comments are so revealing that they will be found applicable a hundred times to your own work.The book is divided into sections on the outdoor model, still life, landscape, the indoor model, and watercolor. Each section begins with a concise essay and continues with comments on basic elements: general character, color, form, seeing, posture, etc. It is in the matter of color that students will especially feel themselves in the presence of a master guide and critic. Hawthorne’s ability to see color and, more important, to make the student see color, is a lesson that will aid student painters and anyone else interested in any phase of art.Although it does not pretend to be a comprehensive or closely ordered course, this book does have much to offer. It also represents the artistic insight of one of the finest painter-teachers of the twentieth century."e;An excellent introduction for laymen and students alike."e; — Time"e;To read these notes and comments … is in itself an education. One cannot help but gain great help."e; — School Arts

Inhalt

INTRODUCTION TO DOVER EDITION BY EDWIN DICKINSONHAWTHORNE - THE PAINTER AN APPRECIATION BY HANS HOFMANNCHARLES WEBSTER HAWTHORNE BY JOSEPH HAWTHORNETHE NOTES INTRODUCTION OUTDOOR MODEL STILL LIFE LANDSCAPE INDOOR MODEL WATER COLOR CONCLUSION

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• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.6.2013
• Reihe/Serie: Dover Art Instruction
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Schlagworte: American Art • applicable • art classes • Art education • artist friends • Artistic Expression • artist learns • artist life • art majors • art-making • artmaking • art means • art reference • art schools • art spirit • art students • art teacher • art theory • art world • aspiring artists • Atmospheric effects • blocks • books on art educations • books on artist lives • books on art majors • books on art references • books on art schools • books on art spirits • books on art theories • books on atmospheric effects • books on color lights • books on color wheels • books on digital artists • books on digital media • books on doing arts • books on light sources • books on oil painters • books on painting classes • books on painting skills • books on plein airs • books on robert henri • books on serious artists • books on teacher roberts • color light • Color theory • color wheels • Colour • creating art • creative people • creative person • creative process • david bayles • digital artists • Digital Media • dinotopia • do art • doing art • fellow artist • Human voice • imaginative realism • information contained • instruction • Instructional • james gurney • Kandinsky • light affects • Lighting • light sources • Medium • non-artists • oil painter • oil painting • Oils • orland • Painters • painting class • paintings inside • painting skills • Palette • Pigments • plein air • practicing artist • professional artist • realist painter • representational • Robert Henri • Schmid • Self Help • self taught • serious artist • Studio • teacher robert • Uncertainty • underlined • underpainting • valuable information • visual artist • visual perception • warm colors
• ISBN-10: 0-486-31874-5 / 0486318745
• ISBN-13: 978-0-486-31874-5 / 9780486318745