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A Painter's thoughts on color and form
Author(s) -
Osborne Roy
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
color research and application
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.393
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1520-6378
pISSN - 0361-2317
DOI - 10.1002/col.5080120608
Subject(s) - painting , subject matter , set (abstract data type) , context (archaeology) , visual arts , art , aesthetics , subject (documents) , computer science , psychology , history , pedagogy , curriculum , archaeology , library science , programming language
Like that of many art students, my initial training seemed dominated by linear drawing, so that painting too often became a matter of outlining shapes and then coloring them in. It was not until I more closely studied the work of Cézanne. Seurat, Robert Delaunay, and other great colorists, that I gained more insight into how color might be used independently of drawing, of how color could create its own form and ultimately become a subject of artistic experiment in its own right. This article examines one artist's thoughts on the relationship between drawing and color, set within a wider, art‐historical context.