John F. Carlson

Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Written by a famous American painter and teacher, whose landscapes are found in many of the world's most noted museums, this book is known as one of the art student's most helpful guides. It provides a wealth of advice on the choice of subject; it tells what to look for and aim for, and explains the mysteries of color, atmospheric conditions, and other phenomena to be found in nature.
Through his profound understanding of the physical nature of landscapes and his highly developed artistic sense, John Carlson is able to explain both the whys and the hows of the various aspects of landscape painting. Among the subjects covered are angles and consequent values (an insightful concept necessary for strong overall unity of design), aerial and linear perspective, the painting of trees, the emotional properties of line and mass in composition, light, unity of tone, choice of subject, and memory work. In the beginning chapters, the author tells how to make the best of canvas, palette, colors, brushes, and other materials and gives valuable advice about texture, glazing, varnishing, bleaching, retouching, and framing. Thirty-four reproductions of Mr. Carlson's own work and 58 of his explanatory diagrams are shown on pages adjoining the text.
As Howard Simon says in the introduction: "Crammed into its pages are the thoughts and experiences of a lifetime of painting and teaching. Undoubtedly it is a good book for the beginner, but the old hand at art will appreciate its honesty and broadness of viewpoint. It confines itself to the mechanics of landscape painting but, philosophically, it roams far and wide. . . . This is a book to keep, to read at leisure, and to look into for the solution of problems as they arise, when the need for an experienced hand is felt."
Unabridged republication of the revised (1958) edition.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Apa Publications
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780486317458
• Artikelnr.: 39865447

Autorenporträt

James Gurney's Survival Guide for Art Students
The author of the 20th anniversary Calla Edition of the phenomenal bestseller Dinotopia, John Gurney is a master at bringing perspective realism and scientific accuracy to his artwork. Mr. Gurney is also a huge admirer of Dover's line of art instruction books and has graciously compiled a list of his ten favorite titles, which includes John F. Carlson's Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting. Here is what he had to say:

"John Carlson, himself a noted American Impressionist painter and teacher, addresses all the common elements faced by landscape painters, including design, light, perspective, color, clouds, trees, and composition. While the book was first published in 1929, Dover has reprinted the 1958 edition, so the language is a little more accessible to the modern reader without sacrificing Carlson's forthright style. Although the 58 diagrams are in black and white, the book's chief value is its practical principles and insights."

Inhaltsangabe

1. How to Approach Painting 2. The Mechanics of Painting 3. Angles and Consequent Values 4. Design
A Pattern of Differing Values 5. Light
Unity of Tone and the Meeting of Edges 6. Aerial Perspective
Transitions in Value and Color 7. Linear Perspective 8. Color
Its Emotional Value in Painting 9. Trees
How to Understand Them 10. Clouds
How They Float 11. Composition
The Expressive Properties of Line and Mass 12. The Main Line and Theme 13. The Extraordinary and Bizarre 14. Painting from Memory Index