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Arthur Wesley Dow è stato un pittore, incisore e fotografo statunitense, famoso per i suoi insegnamenti sulla composizione nell'arte. La sua influenza come docente segnò diverse generazioni di artisti. Dow è noto anche per i suoi contributi artistici e culturali nel movimento Arts & Crafts.



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✵ 6. Aprile 1857 – 13. Dicembre 1922
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Arthur Wesley Dow: Frasi in inglese

“Art is the most valued thing in the world…it is the expression of the highest form of human energy, the creative power nearest to the divine. The power is within - the question is how to reach it.”

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Arthur Wesley Dow & American Arts & Crafts, Nancy E Green & Jessica Poesch Exhibt Cat. New York (1999)
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“.. art lies in the fine choice. The artist does not teach us to see facts: he teaches us to feel harmonies.”

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"Talks on the Appreciation of Art", The Delinator (Jan 1915)
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“Realism was the death of art.”

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Composition: A Series of Exercises in Art Structure for the Use of Students and Teachers, Boston (1899)

“Great art should come from the harmony of two lines.”

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Composition: A Series of Exercises in Art Structure for the Use of Students and Teachers, Boston (1899)
Composition: A Series of Exercises in Art Structure for the Use of Students and Teachers, Boston (1899)

“Painting, which is essentially a rhythmic harmony of coloured spaces.”

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Composition: A Series of Exercises in Art Structure for the Use of Students and Teachers, Boston (1899)

“Ten Practical Experiments
1. Spacing (use gray appearance charcoal)
2. Shape (in varying proportions)
3. Arrangement
4. Rhythm
5. Drawn Line (charcoal and brush)
6. Masses(Chinese and Japanese ink painting)
7. Tone (difference)
8. Color ( suggested by stain glass)
9. Dark and Light(crayon on black paper)
10. Intensities”

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A Course in Fine Arts- Arthur Dow- Bulletin of College of Art of Association of America Vol 1 no 4 September 1918
A Course in Fine Arts

“This man has one dominating idea.. to fill space in a beautiful way.”

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Georgia O'Keeffe, The Artists Voice - Talks with Seventeen Artists, New York Harper & Row (1962)