THE EYE
OF THE PAINTER
AND THE ELEMENTS OF BEAUTY
Andrew Loomis
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CONTENTS
Prologue
Seeing with the Painter's Bye
“What Shall ] Paint?”
Unity
Simplicity and How to Achieve It
Design
Proportion
Color
Rhythm
Form
‘Texture
Values of Light
Beauty of Subject
Technique
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138ILLUSTRATIONS
The Gulf Stream, Winslow Homer
Movement, Sky and Sea, John Marin
Thinking Ahead, Yasuo Kuniyoshi
The Bull Fight, Francisco Goya
Figure with Shaw!, George Grosz
Storm, Dean Fausett
Pears and Pewter, Luigi Lucioni
Egg Beater V, Stuart Davis
White Canadian Barn, No. 2,
Georgia O'Keeffe
Pigeon, Zoltan Sepeshy
Elephants, Russell Cowles
Summer, John Koch
Tite Roo}, Chatles Burehfield
City Interior 1936, Charles Sheeler
The Oulpost, William Thon
Trouble Ahead, Margery Ryerson
Quiet Evening, Hobson Pittman
Winter in the Catskills, Doris Lee
Lilacs, Ernest Kiene
Black Lace Parasol, Morris Kantor
William Rush Carving Allegorical Figure of
the Schuylkill River, Thomas Eakins
Portrait Study, Raphael Soyer
Seed Corn, Andrew Wyeth
Danger, Thomas Benton
Breezing Up, Winslow Homer
Young Woman, Isabel Bishop
Rehearsal on the Stage, Edgar Degas
Slumbering Fields, William Palmer
East Riv
A Stag at Shurkey's, George Bellows
Prophetic Plane, Mark Tobey
Dong Kingman
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Portrait of Albert Wolff, Jules Bastien-Lepage 72
La Femme a la Perle, Jean Corot
The Fish Kite, Robert Vickrey
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Shed in the Swamp, Chasles Burchfield 82
Road with Cypresses, Vincent Van Gogh 92.
Marne at Nagent, Raoul Duty 93
The Virgin with Saint Ines and Saint Teck
E1Greco 95
The Lawyers, Honoré Daumier 96
The Wyndham Sisters, John Singer Sargent 97
Upside Down Table and Mask,
Yasuo Kuniyoshi 109
Expectation, Frederic Taubes 110
Young Henry Ford, Norman Rockwell 117
Venus of Cirene 118
Music, Eugene Berman 119
Paysage du Midi, André Des 122
Les Mouettes, Henri Matisse 123
Fruit Dish Glass ond Newspaper, Juan Gris 124
The Peart Necklace, Jan Vermeer 127
Man with a Magnifying Glass, Rembrandt 132
The Twelith Night Feast, Jan Steen 133
Venus and Adonis, Peter Paul Rubens 136
Porwrait of Madame Monet end Bacille
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At the Moulin Rouge
Henri Toutouse-Lautrec 143
COLOR PLATES
The Café at Night,
Vincent Van Gogh
Early Sunday Morning, Edward Hopper
Light in Autumn, William Thon
The Helicopter, Dong Kingman
Egg Beater 111, Stuart Davis,
Portrait of an Olel Mar,
Andrew Loomis
The Cove, Andrew Loomis
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