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Composition
A series of exercises in art structure for the use of students and teachers
By Arthur Wesley Dow
Professor of Fine Arts in Teachers College, Columbia University New York City
Formerly Instructor in Art at the Pratt Institute
Author of Theory and Practice of Teaching Art and The Ipswich Prints
NINTH EDITION—REVISED AND ENLARGED WITH NEW ILLUSTRATIONS AND COLOR PLATES Garden City, New York
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1914
A series of exercises in art structure for the use of students and teachers
By Arthur Wesley Dow
Professor of Fine Arts in Teachers College, Columbia University New York City
Formerly Instructor in Art at the Pratt Institute
Author of Theory and Practice of Teaching Art and The Ipswich Prints
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1914
Contents
- BEGINNINGS
- THE THREE ELEMENTS
- I. LINE—NOTAN—COLOR
- LINE DRAWING
- II.—JAPANESE MATERIALS AND BRUSH PRACTICE
- PRINCIPLES OF COMPOSITION
- III.—WAYS OF CREATING HARMONY
- LINE
- IV.—COMPOSITION IN SQUARES AND CIRCLES
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tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">V.—COMPOSITION IN RECTANGLES—VARIATION VI.—LANDSCAPE COMPOSITION VII.—COMPOSITION IN REPRESENTATION NOTAN VIII.—HARMONY-BUILDING WITH DARK-AND-LIGHT IX.—TWO VALUES—VARIATIONS—DESIGN X.—TWO VALUES—LANDSCAPE AND PICTURES XI.—TWO VALUES—GOTHIC SCULPTURE JAPANESE DESIGN BOOKS. APPLICATIONS OF TWO VALUES XII.—THREE VALUES XIII.—MORE THAN THREE VALUES COLOR XIV.—COLOR THEORY XV.—COLOR DERIVED FROM NOTAN XVI.—COLOR SCHEMES FROM JAPANESE PRINTS AND FROM TEXTILES COMPOSITION XVII.—IN DESIGN AND PAINTING CONCLUSION
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Note.—The author gratefully acknowledges the courtesy of those named below in according him permission to use photographs of certain paintings and objects of art as illustrations for this book.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Metropolitan Museum, New York The National Gallery, London
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tei-labelitem"> Musée de Cluny. Paris (J. Leroy, photographer) Musée de Sculpture Comparée. Paris Dr. William Sturgis Bigelow, Boston (permission to photograph Japanese paintings) Mr. Frederick W. Gookin (use of photographs from Kenzan and Kano Gyokuraku, made specially for Mr. Gookin, Boston M. F. A. Giacomo Brogi, Florence Fratelli Alinari. Florence D. Anderson, Rome W. A. Mansell & Co., London F. Rothier, Reims, France, and Kaltenbacher, Amiens, France (the Ruskin photographer)
License to use photographs was also obtained from the Autotype Fine Art Company, Limited, London (the Michelangelo drawing, page 51), and from Baldwin Coolidge, Boston.