Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres: Drawings & Details - Softcover

Peitcheva, Maria

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1977605087 ISBN 13: 9781977605085

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

Ingres's style was formed early in life and changed comparatively little. His earliest drawings, such as the Portrait of a Man (1797) already show a suavity of outline and an extraordinary control of the parallel hatchings which model the forms. From the first, his paintings are characterized by a firmness of outline reflecting his often-quoted conviction that "drawing is the probity of art". He believed color to be no more than an accessory to drawing, explaining: "Drawing is not just reproducing contours, it is not just the line; drawing is also the expression, the inner form, the composition, the modeling. See what is left after that. Drawing is seven eighths of what makes up painting." He abhorred the visible brushstroke and made no recourse to the shifting effects of color and light on which the Romantic school depended; he preferred local colors only faintly modeled in light by half tones. "Whatever you know, you must know it with sword in hand."

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1977605087
• ISBN 13: 9781977605085
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 218