Composition
A Series of Exercises in Art Structure for the Use of Students and Teachers
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Composition
A Series of Exercises in Art Structure for the Use of Students and Teachers
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First published in 1899, Arthur Wesley Dow's Composition has probably influenced more Americans than any other text to think of visual form and composition in relation to artistic modernity. While Dow is known as the mentor of Georgia O'Keeffe and Max Weber, his legacy as a proponent of modern art has suffered undeserved neglect by recent artists and art historians. In Composition Dow develops a system for teaching students to create freely constructed images on the basis of harmonic relations between lines, colors, and dark and light patterns. Greatly influenced by Japanese art, he expounds a theory of "flat" formal equilibrium as an essential component of telling pictorial creation. Generations of teachers and their public school pupils learned from Dow's orientalism and adopted basic postimpressionist principles without even knowing the term. The reappearance of Dow's practical, well-illustrated guide, enhanced by Joseph Masheck's discussion of its historical ramifications, is an important event for all concerned with the visual arts and the intellectual antecedents of American modernism. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1998.
First published in 1899, Arthur Wesley Dow's Composition has probably influenced more Americans than any other text to think of visual form and composition in relation to artistic modernity. While Dow is known as the mentor of Georgia O'Keeffe and
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS 1
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- DOWâS âWAYâ TO MODERNITY FOR EVERYBODY
- BEGINNINGS
- THE THREE ELEMENTS 1 LINE â NOTAN â COLOR
- LINE DRAWING II. APANESE MATERIALS AND BRUSH PRACTICE
- PRINCIPLES OF COMPOSITION III. WAYS OF CREATING HARMONY
- LINE IV. COMPOSITION IN SQUARES AND CIRCLES
- LINE V. COMPOSITION IN RECTANGLESâVARIATION
- LINE VI.âLANDSCAPE COMPOSITION
- NOTAN VIII.âHARMONY-BUILDING WITH DARK-AND-LIGHT
- NOTAN IX.âTWO VALUES-VARIATIONS âDESIGN
- NOTAN X.-TWO VALUES-LANDSCAPE AND PICTURES
- NOTAN XI âTWO VALUES âGOTHIC SCULPTURE JAPANESE DESIGN BOOKS. APPLICATIONS OF TWO VALUES
- NOTAN XII.âTHREE VALUES
- NOTAN XIII . âMORE THAN THREE VALUES
- COLOR XIV.âCOLOR THEORY
- COLOR XV.âCOLOR DERIVED FROM NOTAN
- COLOR XVL âCOLOR SCHEMES FROM JAPANESE PRINTS AND FROM TEXTILES
- COMPOSITION XVII. âIN DESIGN AND PAINTING