The Natural Way to Draw by Kimon Nicolaides
This book contains a classic guide to drawing people, offering instructions and tips for drawing different poses and body types. It is split into sixty-four easy exercises covering such subjects as 'Gesture Drawing', 'Group Poses', 'Study of the Bones', etc. With simple, step-by-step instructions and many helpful diagrams, this is a book that will be of considerable utility to anyone wishing to learn how to draw. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new introduction on illustration.Kimon Nicolaides was born in 1891 in Washington, D.C. His first encounter with art was a subliminal recognition of his father's eastern imports. He knew he wanted to paint from an early age, but he had to flee his home to pursue his dream because his parents were opposed to the concept. He made a living in New York by framing pictures, writing for a newspaper, and even appearing in films as an art student as a movie extra. His father was eventually won over by his obvious seriousness, and he was able to fund his education at the Art Students' League, where he studied under Bridgman, Miller, and Sloan.
After the US entered World War One, Nicolaides volunteered for the Camouflage Corps and served in France for nearly a year, getting a citation for his efforts. One of his assignments, which required him to study geographical contour maps, introduced him to the notion of contour, which is the subject of Exercise One in this book. He was granted his first one-man show by the famed Bernheim Jeune gallery in Paris after a spell of work there (1922-23). He returned to New York and staged his first exhibition at the Old Whitney Studio Club, which is now a museum, before returning to painting and lecturing.
He became recognized to critics gradually but definitely for the range of his work, uniqueness of technical approach, complexity of mental conceptions, and his enthusiastic, restless pursuit of new aesthetic experience as a painter, choosing to work carefully and display rarely. He became a second father to hundreds of pupils who passed through his classes at the Art Students' League of New York over the next fifteen years as a teacher, according to the Art Digest. His great talent for human interactions expanded with his wide contact with an rising number of students. He was scrupulously honest and high-principled, blessed with humor, depth and warmth of personality, sanity and equilibrium. Despite his tragically early death in 1938, he left behind a hugely loyal following of outstanding young painters, as well as the distinctive and tangible art training approach outlined in this book.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780395530078 |
| ISBN 10 | 0395530075 |
| Title | The Natural Way to Draw |
| Author | Kimon Nicolaides |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin |
| Year published | 1990-02-01 |
| Number of pages | 236 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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