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Oscar Bluemner painting diary, 1911 June 12 - 1912 Jan. 30
Creator: Oscar Bluemner
NOVEMBER 23 1911
Oscar Bluemner's art evolved directly from his painting diaries, which he kept from 1911 to 1936. Trained as an architect in Germany, Bluemner had an architect's penchant for planning. On walking tours of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, with his painting diary in hand, he made rough outlines of landscapes and plotted complex color arrangements. Each sketch from nature was a blueprint of light, line, mass, shadow, and color. Later he embellished his books with additional studies and extensive notes. ONE RULE, wrote Bluemner, DRAW AND PAINT, EQUALLY, CONSTANTLY, SEPARATELY, THINKING, FEELING. |