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by Arthur Wesley Dow
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ISBN: 048646007X Dover Publications Price: $14.95 |
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A mentor to Georgia O'Keeffe, Dow literally "wrote the book" on composition. First published in 1899, this manual influenced generations of teachers and students. Relevant to all of the visual arts, it employs a workbook format to impart principles regarding harmonic relations between lines, color, and dark and light patterns.
Reprint of Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York, 1913 edition.
Table of Contents for Composition: Understanding Line, Notan and Color
| Beginnings | |||||||
| The Three Elements: Line, Notan, Color | |||||||
| Line Drawing: Japanese materials and brush practice | |||||||
| Principles of composition: Ways of creating harmony | |||||||
| Line: Composition in Squares and Circles; Composition in Rectangles—Variation Pottery forms; Landscape Composition; Composition in Representation | |||||||
| Notan: Harmony-building with Dark-and-Light; Two Values, Variations—Design; Two Values, Landscape and Pictures; Two Values—Gothic Sculpture, Japanese Design books, Applications of two values; Three Values; More than three values | |||||||
| Color: Color Theory; Color derived from Notan; Color schemes from Japanese prints and from textiles | |||||||
| Composition: In Design and Painting | |||||||
| Conclusion |