Arthur Wesley Dow: Spacing

Arthur Wesley Dow was painter from the United States. Explore interesting quotes on spacing.
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“Painting, which is essentially a rhythmic harmony of coloured spaces.”

Arthur Wesley Dow

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

Painting

“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”

Arthur Wesley Dow

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

Color , Light , Appearance , Painting

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

Arthur Wesley Dow

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

Way , Idea , Beauty