The working method of the modern painter

Title: The working method of the modern painter
Creator: Grant, David
Subject: Painting, Modern -- 20th century
Subject: Painting -- Technique
Date: 1977
Type: Thesis
Type: Masters
Type: MFA
Identifier: vital:2503
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1014984
Description: [From Introduction]. Prior to 1800 advances made in painting could often be accredited to the advances made in paint technology. Since the beginning of the last century however, paint technology has stabilised, moved into the background and allowed the artist to create with the medium rather than be dictated to by it. This stabilising of art technology has also generated a lack of interest in technique, leading in turn to a number of painting techniques being lost. In some ways we know less today of the oil medium and its correct use than was known to Jan and Hubert Van Eyck and their followers. However, if this lack of concern with technique has produced a large number of valid artistic statements which are unlikely to survive physically, it also means that the hoardes of painters who painted technically perfect paintings with no valid art statement have dwindled as well.
Format: 36 leaves, pdf
Publisher: Rhodes University, Faculty of Humanities, Fine Art
Language: English
Rights: Grant, David

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