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"Remember, no amount of good drawing will pull you out if your colors are not true. Get them true and you will be surprised at how little else you will need."
Charles W. Hawthorne
"My dear friend," I said, "no one is a visual virgin". "Long before you had set foot in my house you had looked at photographs, illustrations, advertisements, books, movies, television, and museums. All your life you have been exposed to these things and like it or not, they influence the way you see today."
Henry Hensche
Henry Hensche
A lthough Impressionism made its' debut by the title of Claude Monet's Impression Sunrise painting in 1872, the progress that was visually achieved in painting with the new pigments was never truly realized. That "every plane change is a color change", has never been completely understood by the tonally established academies and art institutions. As an accepted form of painting now, it should be noted that Impressionism was just another label which was given to describe a new approach to painting that for the most part, became confused. It is however, not just another "style" or "ism", but a modern Color Visualists approach in rendering the modulation of color that exists in nature. These subtle light key moments are fleeting and require much study for the eye to accurately begin seeing the color effects before you. Still, history shows us that it is generally misunderstood and unexplored in the full color range of a three-demensional Color Visualist's perspective.
what principals guided him that resulted in works of art being treasured
throughout the centuries. What are the factors that made them great?
This is what we should know, that we may not become blind hero-worshippers"
From, "The Art of Seeing and Painting", by Henry Hensche
A landmark achievement in painting instruction, and teaching students to see color relationships, the Foundation wishes to preserve not just the voluminous works of Henry Hensche, but the
practical and historical legacy of teaching principle which has been handed down, first from
William Merritt Chase to Charles Webster Hawthorne - as Chase's assistant, and then to Henry Hensche - as Hawthorne's assistant.
To illustrate to the teacher, student and laymen alike, that "seeing" the many light keys of nature can be taught.
That it is the next logical step that one must take in a realistic approach to painting if they
are to grow in the knowledge of color and plein-air perspective.
