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Book Title: Hawthorne on Painting

Publication Name: Hawthorne on Painting

Title: Hawthorne on Painting

Author: Charles w. Hawthorne

Format: Trade Paperback

ISBN-10: 048620653X

EAN: 9780486206530

ISBN: 9780486206530

Publisher: Dover Publications, Incorporated

Genre: Art

Release Date: 28/03/2003

Release Year: 2003

Language: English

Country/Region of Manufacture: US

Item Height: 0.2in

Item Length: 8.8in

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Item Weight: 4.6 Oz

Series: Dover Art Instruction

Publication Year: 1960

Topic: Techniques / General, Techniques / Painting

Number of Pages: 96 Pages

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Look around and select a subject that you can see painted. That will paint itself. Do the obvious thing before you do the superhuman thing. It may have been accidental, but you knew enough to let this alone. The good painter is always making use of accidents. Never try to repeat a success. Swing a bigger brush -- you don't know what fun you are missing. For 31 years, Charles Hawthorne spoke in this manner to students of his famous Cape Cod School of Art. The essence of that instruction has been collected from students' notes and captured in this book, retaining the personal feeling and the sense of on-the-spot inspiration of the original classroom. Even though Hawthorne is addressing himself to specific problems in specific paintings, his comments are so revealing that they will be found applicable a hundred times to your own work. The book is divided into sections on the outdoor model, still life, landscape, the indoor model, and watercolor. Each section begins with a concise essay and continues with comments on basic elements: general character, color, form, seeing, posture, etc. It is in the matter of color that students will especially feel themselves in the presence of a master guide and critic. Hawthorne's ability to see color and, more important, to make the student see color, is a lesson that will aid student painters and anyone else interested in any phase of art. Although it does not pretend to be a comprehensive or closely ordered course, this book does have much to offer. It also represents the artistic insight of one of the finest painter-teachers of the twentieth century. "An excellent introduction for laymen and students alike." -- Time "To read these notes and comments ... is in itself an education. One cannot help but gain great help." -- School Arts

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Hawthorne on Painting

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Charles w. Hawthorne

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1960

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Art

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INTRODUCTION TO DOVER EDITION BY EDWIN DICKINSON HAWTHORNE - THE PAINTER AN APPRECIATION BY HANS HOFMANN CHARLES WEBSTER HAWTHORNE BY JOSEPH HAWTHORNE THE NOTES INTRODUCTION OUTDOOR MODEL STILL LIFE LANDSCAPE INDOOR MODEL WATER COLOR CONCLUSION

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by leluis--0
May 16, 2021
The Color Bible
Charles Hawthorne’s painting heritage goes back directly to Monet. Hawthorne founded the colorist school of art and taught the founder of the Cape Cod School, Henry Hensche, in person. This school directly dovetails with Cezanne’s approach to color which states that every change in form is a change in color. In this way “value” is not separate from color as a concept. Hawthorne’s approach gives the painter a uniquely pure and authentic way of seeing color and most importantly a way of painting light. The entire body of Hawthorne’s work studies the effect of light on color. This book is comprised of Hawthorne’s notes and critiques of his students. For anyone wanting a step-by-step approach or color photos of painting instructions, this will not be useful. The fact is that both of these ... Charles Hawthorne’s painting heritage goes back directly to Monet. Hawthorne founded the colorist school of art and taught the founder of the Cape Cod School, Henry Hensche, in person. This school directly dovetails with Cezanne’s approach to color which states that every change in form is a change in color. In this way “value” is not separate from color as a concept. Hawthorne’s approach gives the painter a uniquely pure and authentic way of seeing color and most importantly a way of painting light. The entire body of Hawthorne’s work studies the effect of light on color. This book is comprised of Hawthorne’s notes and critiques of his students. For anyone wanting a step-by-step approach or color photos of painting instructions, this will not be useful. The fact is that both of these elements would be useless to anyone wishing to truly learn Hawthorne’s method. There is no “formula”. Every painting is unique, and the key is how colors within a painting relate uniquely to one another. It is a thought process and analysis that must be applied to one’s own painting and not a “color recipe”. Hawthorne’s method is a combination of acquired skill in seeing color, rational problem-solving, and a bit of instinct. It is not an easy method to master, even for advanced painters. The result, however, is rich,pure, authentic color and the ability to capture light in a way that portrays it as close to the effect of sunlight as possible. It is well worth the effort to pursue this school of painting which traces its lineage back to Monet.
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by sbaron33
Jun 10, 2010
Pieces of Paint
Hawthorne had a way of describing his painting techniques to students and wanted them to nearly ignore the complexities of structure in favor of the surface phenomena. He wanted them to look almost exclusively at color - it's hue, value, intensity - in a very small local area on an object and find the right mixture that could sit as a "piece of color" in relation to other pieces that ultimately formed the objects and the painting as a whole. Because he didn't write this little book means that his wife, in this case, was remembering his words and offered them up as a "how-to" book. Another book of this kind, Kimon Nicolaides' "The Natural Way to Draw", was a compilation of student memories and it too falls short on depth and/or reasons why the directions were given to students. That ... Hawthorne had a way of describing his painting techniques to students and wanted them to nearly ignore the complexities of structure in favor of the surface phenomena. He wanted them to look almost exclusively at color - it's hue, value, intensity - in a very small local area on an object and find the right mixture that could sit as a "piece of color" in relation to other pieces that ultimately formed the objects and the painting as a whole. Because he didn't write this little book means that his wife, in this case, was remembering his words and offered them up as a "how-to" book. Another book of this kind, Kimon Nicolaides' "The Natural Way to Draw", was a compilation of student memories and it too falls short on depth and/or reasons why the directions were given to students. That particular and unfortunate book should be titled "The Natural Way to Scribble" for it focuses on superficial exercises of the hand without enough substantive attention given to the thought process, which is, after all, what directs the hand. However, the Hawthorne technique does demand close scrutiny and observation that is then synthesized into the "correct" color that is then placed in context to other daubs of color, much like the more color-complex paintings of Cezanne. When one assumes that the student has broad experience in observational drawing and has studies composition in a traditional way, the book can provide a means of approaching how to literally paint, one stroke after another. One of Hawthorne's very best students from the Provincetown school was Edwin Dickinson, possibly the best underestimated American painter of the 20th century, whose own idiomatic painting style produced intelligent, mysterious, and elegant representational paintings and drawings that were much admired by the first-generation abstract expressionists. With good reason, as they not only stood as unique examples of what the marriage of realism and abstraction can produce. The book is inexpensive, and if it can help a student (of any stage in her/his career) as Hawthorne helped Dickinson it's worth thousands of times its cost.
by bobonoinc
Jun 20, 2018
Very disapointing.
From books by his students and their high praise of Hawthorne's painting style, I expected this book to be instructional -- like a course in painting. Instead it is merely a collection of his critiques of students' works without the benefit of images of the works. There are no illustrations and without that the book has little value to a student of painting.
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by cashfan83
Aug 03, 2021
Nice light read
Not super in depth, but a entertaining and thoughtful quick read. Easy to tuck into a bag and take with you. A sometimes funny, informative, and philosophical side of plein air painting. This provides an interesting perspective from someone who doesn’t hold a mainstream view of what plein air painters should focus on. Instead of drawing and accuracy, Hawthorne really only wants his students to focus on color. The rest takes care of itself if you get the color correct.Not super in depth, but a entertaining and thoughtful quick read. Easy to tuck into a bag and take with you. A sometimes funny, informative, and philosophical side of plein air painting. This provides an interesting perspective from someone who doesn’t hold a mainstream view of what plein air painters should focus on. Instead of drawing and accuracy, Hawthorne really only wants his students to focus on color. The rest takes care of itself if you get the color correct.
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by lynn928
Aug 22, 2018
Great for the Impressionist painter
Excellent and easy read from one of the great impressionist painters. Lots of quotes, guidance, critiques of his students' works that will benefit any serious painter wanting to improve his/ her artist's eye and technique.
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