"The New Method" Of Cozens Watercolor Landscape Painting And Its Practical Significance

Innovation is the art of life, maverick innovation, but also the vitality of the artist, the driving force behind the development of the arts. Alexander Cozens is a very innovative artist, promote innovation, the pursuit of innovation, and made a lot of watercolor landscape composition and innovation practice and research, and he also published many articles and writings to mention here the "new method" is from Alexander Cozens a title for the "new way to help inventor of the original landscape composition"(A New Method of Assisting the Invention in Drawing Original Compositions of Landscape) in the text, the book in specific description of the "new" method, and also elaborated on some of the famous Cozens ideas and theories, this book should be said that Alexander Cozens lifetime pursuit of art and faith is made quite fair representation and interpretation.This thesis is around the Alexander Cozens’"new method as the object of study, on the Alexander Cozens’s artistic style, the language of art, performance practices, as well as his time and later field of Watercolor Painting to do some simple research and reflection. In short, the Alexander Cozens invention, helped invent the original landscape composition of the "new approach" to give us a great deal, no matter in painting techniques or teaching methods should continue to pursue the driving force behind innovation, innovation or development of the arts, the artist should have the sense of innovation, only the achievements of the watercolor art of creative individuals, and to achieve the watercolor innovative nation as a whole.