The Natural Way to Draw Nicolaides, 2D Crafts, Rysowanie i Malowanie
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"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
aesthetics
or
conception.
It
has only
to
do
with the
act
of
correct observa-
tion,
and
by
that
I
mean
a
physical contact with alI sorts
of
objects
through
a11
the senses."
-
Nicolaides
ISBN
0-395-530U7-5
Jacket drawings
by
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WASSERhlAN
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KIMON NICOLAIDES
was
born in Washington, D.C., in
1891.
His
first contact with
art
was
a subconscious familiarity 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
the idea.
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
finaIIy
won
over by his
obvious
seriousness
and financed his instruction at the
Art
Students' League
-
under
Bridgman, Miller, and Sloan.
When the United States entered the first World War, NicoEai'des volunteered in the
Camouflage 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-Z3),
he
was
given
his
first
one-man
show
by the
famous Bernheim
Jeune
gallery there. Back in New York, he held his first exhibit
at
the
oId
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
critics
gradually but unmistakabIy
for
"the range
of
his work," "'originalty of tech-
nical approach,"
"richness of mental concepts," and his "eager,
restless
pursuit
of
new
aesthetic experience."
As
a
teacher, during the next fifteen years, he became, as the Art
Digest
put it, "second
father" to hundreds
of
students who passed through his classes
at
the Art Students'
League
of
New York. Scrupulously honest and high-principled,
endowed
with humor,
richness and warmth of personality, sanity
and
balance, his extraordinary talent for
human
relationships
grew with his wide contact with increasing numbers of students.
Although
he
died
in
1938,
at a
tragically early
age,
he
Ieft
behind a tremendously
devoted following of brilliant young artists, as well
as
the unique and concrete system
of
art teaching presented
in
this book.
Natural
Way
to
Dram
The
Peter
A. Ju!*y
&
5-rs
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