Artwork Title: Town Hall, Provincetown, MA

Town Hall, Provincetown, MA

Henry Hensche

c. 1940s ...Henry Hensche embraced the block study as a teaching tool because he realized that by eliminating distractions – the play of light across flowers, the sparkle in the reflection of water, the slight glow in the shadow on a model’s face – a student would be able to concentrate on the fundamental problem of putting one spot of color next to another. Hawthorne’s mudheads were an earlier version of this. Hensche also realized that if a painter learned to see big masses through the study of simple shapes, that painter would be able to apply that knowledge to much more complex subjects. Instead of seeing a landscape as an assemblage of trees and houses and sky and flowers and fences and what-have-you, the painter who has trained by studying blocks is apt to see the landscape as big masses of light and shadow, thus both simplifying the problem of how to approach the painting, and also providing a powerful basis for organization. [http://www.roblongley.com/5.html]
20 x 24 in
Uploaded on May 29, 2018 by Suzan Hamer

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