This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...producing. Of all visible features in a painting, color jhnnlH hnlH most attraction to most people, artist-and public alike. It is the color element in a painting which lures people into the painting profession, a lure which must be very enticing when one considers the vast hordes of painters as compared with ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...producing. Of all visible features in a painting, color jhnnlH hnlH most attraction to most people, artist-and public alike. It is the color element in a painting which lures people into the painting profession, a lure which must be very enticing when one considers the vast hordes of painters as compared with architectects and sculptors. The very earliest known use of paint, by the Egyptians and Assyrians, was a genuine demonstration of their love of color for itself. Color has a very wide range of effect upon different people, and we are just now treated to the spectacle of some very recent artists, cubists and futurists, post-impressionists in general, who are trying to dish up to us as a new thing, the symbolism of color, which has existed since time immemorial. The use of color to symbolize human emotion, passion, or sorrow is no new thing, merely a primitive thing which has nothing to do with painting directly, though often brought into play, as I will try to point out later on. The relation of color to music is closely akin to the visual rhythm element and an attempt to represent color by a color code. These experiments belong scarcely in the studio, but rather in the laboratory of the professor of psychology, who will probably be much more sympathetically inclined toward all this new movement than the painter's profession. The color problem of the artist is different with every painter, and while some painters manage to get along with very little color, having more pleasure in form and neutral values, the great majority consider color a most essential element in their work, whether they are easel painters, or concerned with decoration or any other artistic problem involving adornment of flat surfaces. With the modern development of chemistry, no know...
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b/w Illustration. Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Good, no dust jacket, moderate water spotting to rear cover. Illustrated with 32 b&w reproductions of American paintings. 1st edition / 1st printing. Hard Cover. 224pp. 14.5 x 21cm.
