About the Author.
Kimon Nicolaides was born in Washington D.C., in 1891. His first contact
with art was a subconscious familiarity with the oriental objects
imported by his father. He decided early that he wished to paint, but he
had to run away from home to study art because his parents were
unsympathetic to the idea. He supported himself in New York by whatever
came to hand - framing pictures, writing for a newspaper, even acting
the part of an art student as a movie extra. His father was finally won
over by his obvious seriouness and financed his instruction at the Art
Students' League - under Bridgman, Miller, and Sloan. When the United
States entered the first World War, Nicolaides volunteered in the
Camouflage Corps and served in France for over a year, receiving a
citation. One of his assignments, involving the study of geographical
contour maps, first opened up for him the conception of "contour" which
constitutes Exercise One in this book. After a period of work in Paris
(1922-23), he was given his first one-man show by the famous Bernheim
Jeune gallery there. Back in New York, he held his first exhibit at the
Old Whitney Studio Club, now the museum, and settled down to painting
and teaching. As a painter, choosing to work painstakingly and exhibit
seldom, he became known to the critics gradually but unmistakably for
"the range of his work," "originality of technical approach," "richness
of mental concepts" and his "eager, restless pursuit of new aesthetic
experience." As a teacher, during the next fifteen years, he became, as
the Art Digest put it, "second father" to hundreds of students who
passed through his classes at the Art Students' League of New York.
Scrupulously honest and high-principled, endowed with humor, richness
and warmth of personality, sanity and balance, his extraordinary talent
for human relationships grew with his wide contact with increasing
numbers of students. Although he died in 1938, at a tragically early
age, he left behind a tremendously devoted following of brilliant young
artists, as well as the unique and concrete system of art teaching
presented in this book.
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The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study
Publisher: Mariner Books (February 1, 1990)
Author: Kimon Nicolaides
ISBN-10: 0395530075
Paperback: 240 pages
Language: English
Format: PDF
Info: http://www.amazon.com/Natural-Way-Draw-Working-Study/dp/0395530075
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