THE EYE OF THE PAINTER AND THE ELEMENTS OF BEAUTY Andrew Loomis THE VIKING PRESS - NEW YORKu m w y vi vr vu xt xu xm CONTENTS Prologue Seeing with the Painter's Bye “What Shall ] Paint?” Unity Simplicity and How to Achieve It Design Proportion Color Rhythm Form ‘Texture Values of Light Beauty of Subject Technique 101 108 4 121 126 135 138ILLUSTRATIONS The Gulf Stream, Winslow Homer Movement, Sky and Sea, John Marin Thinking Ahead, Yasuo Kuniyoshi The Bull Fight, Francisco Goya Figure with Shaw!, George Grosz Storm, Dean Fausett Pears and Pewter, Luigi Lucioni Egg Beater V, Stuart Davis White Canadian Barn, No. 2, Georgia O'Keeffe Pigeon, Zoltan Sepeshy Elephants, Russell Cowles Summer, John Koch Tite Roo}, Chatles Burehfield City Interior 1936, Charles Sheeler The Oulpost, William Thon Trouble Ahead, Margery Ryerson Quiet Evening, Hobson Pittman Winter in the Catskills, Doris Lee Lilacs, Ernest Kiene Black Lace Parasol, Morris Kantor William Rush Carving Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill River, Thomas Eakins Portrait Study, Raphael Soyer Seed Corn, Andrew Wyeth Danger, Thomas Benton Breezing Up, Winslow Homer Young Woman, Isabel Bishop Rehearsal on the Stage, Edgar Degas Slumbering Fields, William Palmer East Riv A Stag at Shurkey's, George Bellows Prophetic Plane, Mark Tobey Dong Kingman 15 16 7 22 26 33 37 38 39 42 43 44 45 46 48 49 30 51 sl 34 56 37 59 64 66 67 68 2 B 16 oe Portrait of Albert Wolff, Jules Bastien-Lepage 72 La Femme a la Perle, Jean Corot The Fish Kite, Robert Vickrey 79 81 Shed in the Swamp, Chasles Burchfield 82 Road with Cypresses, Vincent Van Gogh 92. Marne at Nagent, Raoul Duty 93 The Virgin with Saint Ines and Saint Teck E1Greco 95 The Lawyers, Honoré Daumier 96 The Wyndham Sisters, John Singer Sargent 97 Upside Down Table and Mask, Yasuo Kuniyoshi 109 Expectation, Frederic Taubes 110 Young Henry Ford, Norman Rockwell 117 Venus of Cirene 118 Music, Eugene Berman 119 Paysage du Midi, André Des 122 Les Mouettes, Henri Matisse 123 Fruit Dish Glass ond Newspaper, Juan Gris 124 The Peart Necklace, Jan Vermeer 127 Man with a Magnifying Glass, Rembrandt 132 The Twelith Night Feast, Jan Steen 133 Venus and Adonis, Peter Paul Rubens 136 Porwrait of Madame Monet end Bacille ‘Claude Monet iat At the Moulin Rouge Henri Toutouse-Lautrec 143 COLOR PLATES The Café at Night, Vincent Van Gogh Early Sunday Morning, Edward Hopper Light in Autumn, William Thon The Helicopter, Dong Kingman Egg Beater 111, Stuart Davis, Portrait of an Olel Mar, Andrew Loomis The Cove, Andrew Loomis Following page (04 Following page 128