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“Think of drawing as a way of talking about the things that interest you. Think of those wonderful documents, drawings made on scraps of paper by the lesser Dutch masters while they were wandering around market places and sitting in saloons.”

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John French Sloan

John French Sloan was an American painter known for his depictions of urban life. His works are typically presented in a realistic style, emphasizing the impact of industrialization and urbanization. Born on August 2, 1871, he passed away on September 7, 1951. more

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“In the work of Seurat, you can see the dots of neutral colors carrying the form and then the dots of more intense color that make the color texture. It is a totally different principle that than of the Impressionists who used broken color to imitate visual effect.”

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“Have a special interest, a positive prejudice about some clump of trees or one particular knoll, an excitement about them can spread through the whole composition, and so fire the rest of the things that you are only mildly interested in.”

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“Sets of lines can say something about the direction and nature of the light. They are used by great fresco painters as a sign for shade.”

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“I always think of shade as being full of light. That is why I like to use the word shade rather than light and shadow. Shade seems to play over the thing, envelop it, better define it, while shadow seems to fall on the thing and stain the surface with darks.”

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