A Natural Way To Draw
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Publicado: 5 de febrero de 2013
“… not only the best how-to book on drawing, it is the best how-to book we have seen on any subject.” – Whole Earth Catalog.
Nicolaides.
The Natural Way to Draw.
More than 250000 hardcovercopies sold.
Peter A. Juley & Son
“There is only one right way to draw and that is a perfectly natural way. It has nothing to do with artifice or technique. It has nothing to do with aestheticsor conception. It has only to do with the act of correct observation, and by that I mean a physical contact with all sorts of objects through all the senses.”-Nicolaides
Jacket drawings by NORMAN WASSERMAN
KIMON NICOLAIDES was born in Washington, D.C., in 1891. His first contact with art was a subconsciousfamiliarity with the oriental objects imported by his father. He decided early that he wished to paint, but he had to run away from home to study art because his parents were unsympathetic to theidea. He supported himself in New York by whatever came to hand – framing pictures, writing for a newspaper, even acting the part of an art student as a movie extra. His father was finally won over by hisobvious seriousness and financed his instruction at the Art Students´ League – under Bridgman, Miller, and Sloan.
When the United States entered the First World War, Nicolaides volunteered in theCamouflage Corps and served in France for over a year, receiving a citation. One of his assignments, involving the study of geographical contour maps, first opened up for him the conception of “contour”which constitutes Exercise One in this book.
After a period of work in Paris (1922-23), he was given his first one-man show by the famous Bernheim Jeune gallery there. Back in New York, he held hisfirst exhibit at the old Whitney Studio Club, now the museum, and settled down to painting and teaching. As a painter choosing to work painstakingly and exhibit seldom, he became known to the...
Nicolaides.
The Natural Way to Draw.
More than 250000 hardcovercopies sold.
Peter A. Juley & Son
“There is only one right way to draw and that is a perfectly natural way. It has nothing to do with artifice or technique. It has nothing to do with aestheticsor conception. It has only to do with the act of correct observation, and by that I mean a physical contact with all sorts of objects through all the senses.”-Nicolaides
Jacket drawings by NORMAN WASSERMAN
KIMON NICOLAIDES was born in Washington, D.C., in 1891. His first contact with art was a subconsciousfamiliarity with the oriental objects imported by his father. He decided early that he wished to paint, but he had to run away from home to study art because his parents were unsympathetic to theidea. He supported himself in New York by whatever came to hand – framing pictures, writing for a newspaper, even acting the part of an art student as a movie extra. His father was finally won over by hisobvious seriousness and financed his instruction at the Art Students´ League – under Bridgman, Miller, and Sloan.
When the United States entered the First World War, Nicolaides volunteered in theCamouflage Corps and served in France for over a year, receiving a citation. One of his assignments, involving the study of geographical contour maps, first opened up for him the conception of “contour”which constitutes Exercise One in this book.
After a period of work in Paris (1922-23), he was given his first one-man show by the famous Bernheim Jeune gallery there. Back in New York, he held hisfirst exhibit at the old Whitney Studio Club, now the museum, and settled down to painting and teaching. As a painter choosing to work painstakingly and exhibit seldom, he became known to the...
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