Oil sketches by Peter Paul Rubens—created at speed and in the heat of invention with a colorful loaded brush—convey all the spontaneity of the great Flemish painter’s creative process. This ravishing book draws from both private and public collections to present in full color 40 of Rubens’s oil sketches. Viewers will find in these informal paintings an enchanting intimacy and gain a new appreciation of Rubens’s capacity for invention and improvisation, and of his special genius for dramatic design and coloristic brilliance.
The book investigates the role of the oil sketch in Rubens’s work; the development of the artist’s themes and narratives in his multiple sketches; and the history of the appreciation of his oil sketches. It also explores some of the unique aspects of his techniques and materials. By revealing the oil sketches as the most direct record of Rubens’s creative process, the book presents him as the greatest and most fluent practitioner of this vibrant and vital medium.
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Rubens's vibrant and quickly executed oil sketches are the subject of this ravishing book, which presents and discusses forty of these informal paintings, offering the most direct record of the great artist's creative process.
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Peter C. Sutton is executive director of the Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut. Marjorie E. Wieseman is curator of European painting and sculpture at the Cincinnati Art Museum. Sutton and Wieseman previously collaborated on The Age of Rubens exhibition held in museums in Boston and Toledo, Ohio. Nico van Hout is a conservator at the Museum voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerp.
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8 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
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too many black and white, too little color plates,
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This review is from: Drawn by the Brush: Oil Sketches by Peter Paul Rubens (Hardcover)
this is the only reason why i was very disappointed. one could basically find all that is in the book online. one thing that i just realize from buying this book is that if you love an artist dont just buy it base on one customer's review even if you love the artist that bad. but then again if you crave to have Rubens on paper then its not an awful buy just not the best of the best. so far i have three art books on Rubens, the drawing by the metropolitan museum, a master in the making, and now drawn by the brush, the best goes to the drawings, and right next to it a master in the making and the last one...
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Best substitute for the print I had stolen...,
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This review is from: Drawn by the Brush: Oil Sketches by Peter Paul Rubens (Hardcover)
The dust cover to this Sutton book features Head of a Negro. I had a large print of this artwork on my wall years ago. After one particular party in 1968, I found it had been liberated from my house. I've been looking (in an unsystematic way) for another print ever since. . .in England. . .in Canada. . .in Texas. This book helps, in a small way, to fill the physical gap on my wall. It adds in a large way to my collection of art books. It's one coffee table book that I don't leave on the coffee table. The prose is sometimes a little overblown, but usually clear, and the illustrations are great.
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