Andrew Loomis by Eye Of The Painter

Author:Eye Of The Painter
Format: epub

! DESIGN The Fish Kile by Robert Vickrey, midtown galleries, new York city. Detail becomes more interesting when a picture also contains simple, broadly painted areas ! 1 finished ones. Color is most effective when bril1 fiance is balanced by quiet colors. Detail becomes | more interesting when a picture also contains | simple, broadly painted areas. Form is more convincing when there is a sense of underlying structure. And so on. j We must give equally serious attention to character and ways of depicting it. Character should 1 be expressed in the simplest possible terms; otherwise its force will be lost. If superficial detail is l needed to portray the character of a subject, then l the time required to add such detail is well spent. I But if structure is the main theme, then overly ' detailed surface decoration will tend to detract from rather than add to the main characteristic | we wish to portray. The character of an animal can be conveyed better through the fines of its body, its graceful movement, than by the most exact duplication of its fur or markings. A tree is better represented by its lines of growth, its struggle against the elements, its spacing and proportions, than by emphasis on the outlines of individual leaves or the markings of bark. While such details are essential in the illustration of a field guide book, they hamper the freedom of style necessary in the execution of a painting. Where an illustrator's job is to be photographically correct as to detail, an artist's search for character goes deeper. Feeling can be expressed better in realistic art than it can in abstract painting, for the latter is largely an intellectual affair. There is a “feel"

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