The artist at work

Abstract

This book "represents ... the exhibition of the same title suggested and organized in 1944 for the British Institute of Adult Education and C.E.M.A. (now the Arts Council of Great Britain) by Ellen M. Kemp and designed by H. Ruhemann." -- Page 2.

Contents

Environment and task -- Artistic tradition -- Creative impulse -- Training -- Inspiration -- Planning -- Style -- Optical principles -- Preliminary studies -- Tricks of the trade -- Sketch -- Finished picture -- The work in progress -- Watercolour -- Pastel -- Texture -- Main types of painting techniques -- Milestones -- Decline -- Recovery -- The French impressionists -- The neo-impressionists -- The post-impressionists -- Cézanne and eclectics -- Contemporary British painters -- Contemporary continental painters -- Some misconceptions.