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Arthur Wesley Dow. Arthur Wesley Dow was an artist and teacher who wrote a book that became the bible of art students and teachers and provided the standards by which art was taught at all levels from grade school to college. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Arthur Wesley Dow
• Arthur Wesley Dow was an artist and teacher who wrote a book that became the bible of art students and teachers and provided the standards by which art was taught at all levels from grade school to college.
• With a clear insistence on the basic principles, Dow made his design program easy to follow. His goal was to give students simple compositional techniques to create beautiful objects.
• Dow was the first Art Educator or Artist to identify and classify the elements
• He described the elements as LINE, NOTAN or dark & light, and COLOR
By turning away from the direct replication of nature to a synthetic art emphasizing the essential – shapes, flattened forms, and decorative line and using a prescribed formula that could aid the student in making individual choices. Dow gave students a vital, unrestrictive tool with which to work.
The elements of line, notan, and color were modified by 5 supportive principles:
1. Opposition2. Transition3. Subordination4. Repetition5. Symmetry
• Dow championed the arts and crafts aesthetic and never considered crafts inferior to fine arts.
• He taught his students to appreciate the elegance of pure design, based on nature but not replicating it.
• Dow’s own approach to the arts and crafts aesthetic came as much from his appreciation of the decorative arts of non-Western cultures, particularly Japan and China.
• His book Composition is widely recognized as having laid the stylistic foundation for the American Arts & Crafts movement.
• Dow influenced many of America’s leading artists.
• Georgia O’Keefe
• Max Weber - considered one of the most significant early American Cubists
Refereneces: http://archive.org/stream/compositionserie00dowauoft#page/n5/mode/2upGreen, N. E. (1999). Arthur Wesley Dow: His Art and his Influence, New York: Spanierman Gallery, LLC.Arthur Wesley Dow. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.ipswicharts.com/artists/dowGreen, N. E. (1999). Arthur Wesley Dow. New York: The American Federation Of Arts.Mock-Morgan, M. (1985). The influence of Arthur Wesley Dow on art education. In B. Wilson & H. Hoffa (Eds.), The history of art education: Proceedings from the Penn State conference (pp. 234-237). Reston, VA: National Art Education Association.http://www.tfaoi.com