ROBERT COANE
- A LESSON PLAN -
BASIC PRINCIPLES AND TECHNIQUES IN ART EDUCATION
"Before you can learn to walk on a tightrope, you must learn to walk on the ground."
- Henri Matisse

DRAWING



COLOR


COMPOSITION



THE PAINTING PROCESS



LIFE DRAWING

Because you can't get to this ... if you can't do this.
PICASSO: Last Self-Portrait
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PICASSO: Entrance exam drawing
to the Barcelona Academy
As study for other works


Boucher
Recumbent Nude Female
Odalisque
Blonde Odalisque
Leda and the Swan

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FORSHORTENING
"The most captivating and imaginative painter to have lived since Giotto would certainly have been
Paolo Ucello, if only he had spent as much time on human figures and animals as he spent,
and wasted, on the finer points of perspective."
- Giorgio Vasari
Ucello

Mantegna
Carracci

Caravaggio
Waterhouse

William Etty

Salvador Dalí

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2-D EGYPTIAN ART



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DRAPERY

Michaelangelo

Pontormo
Ingres
Ingres

"I'm in the habit of sculpting my marble children first without clothes...
Later I only have to throw a cloth over them and everything vibrates at the points
where it touches the body; thus the figure is made of flesh and blood, not a cold effigy."
- August Rodin

Rodin


"My nudes are done, which is to say that the bodies benerath the draperies are done...
You see, it is the part one doesn't see, the most important part, which is finished."
- August Rodin

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ECONOMY &
SURFACE DETAIL

"Do not draw bodies looking like a sacks of chestnuts." - Leonardo Da Vinci

Michelangelo
"Less is more." - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Charles Camoin
Cezánne

"The secret is knowing what to leave out." - Steve Jobs

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DEVELOPEMENT OF
COLOR IN WESTERN ART

"Sometimes I think that the heavens have opened up and what has come down is color,
sound and music. That is what painting is all about." - Hans Hoffman


BAROQUE
Rembrandt

IMPRESSIONISM
Monet


POST-IMPRESSIONISM
Van Gogh

FAUVES
Matisse

ABSTRACTION
Kandinsky

COLOR FIELD
Rothko

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LOCAL vs. OPTICAL
COLOR

Local Color

Cezánne
Optical Color


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COLOR WHEEL


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MONOCHROMATIC
COLOR SCHEMES

Carolus-Duran

Walt Kuhn

Picasso

Robert Coane

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COMPLEMENTARY
COLOR SCHEMES

Chagal

Maurice Denis

Delville

Sorolla

Derain


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PERCEPTION
The Way We See
What's wrong with this picture?
Scroll down for answer.

 
Leonardo da Vinci
Arcimboldo: The Vegetable Gardener


Recognition: What is this?

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Denis Achacoso

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PATTERNS
in Composition
All works by R. Coane

"Most artists have one idea, or maybe two. In the best circumstances, that's enough for a career."
- Michael Kimmelman, New York Times

Study of Hsin-Hsin #1

Study of an Eggplant

Top: Study of Jen-Chin in Green Robe #2

Bottom: Study of Four Apples

Santander Study

Study of K-Y Ling #2

Top: Study of Jen-Chin in Green Robe #1

Bottom: Study of a Chubb and Limes

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PATTERNS
in Shapes
All works by R. Coane

Study of Ling #1

Study of Zi-En #3

Study of Jen-Chin #7

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THE PAINTING PROCESS
FROM SKETCH TO FULL RENDITON
"The first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear as a body in relief
and projecting from that plane.''
- Leonardo da Vinci

ROBERT COANE
Study of Ling #3

"There is a species of emotion particular to painting. There is an effect that results from a certain
arrangement of colors, of lights, of shadows. It is this that one calls the music of painting.

- Édouard Vuillard


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NO WONDER PEOPLE THINK
CARAVAGGIO
IS A GUY ON THE SOPRANOS!

 
THERE'S NOT ENOUGH ART IN OUR SCHOOLS
"The academic disciplines of art history and studio art expose students to culturally important bodies of knowledge, train them in skills of analysis and synthesis and teach them modes of professional conduct. But there is a deeper way art educates: like literature, music and dance, it educates the imagination and, in so doing, deepens and refines awareness of how inert physicality may be brought to life by human touch."
- Ken Johnson

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