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<div>Permit me in the first place to anticipate the disappointment ofany student who opens this book with the idea of finding "wrinkles"on how to draw faces, trees, clouds, or what not, short cuts toexcellence in drawing, or any of the tricks so popular with thedrawing masters of our grandmothers and still dearly loved by alarge number of people. No good can come of such methods, for thereare no short cuts to excellence. But help of a very practical kindit is the aim of the following pages to give; although it may benecessary to make a greater call upon the intelligence of thestudent than these Victorian methods attempted.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>the practice and science of drawing pdf download</div><div></div><div>Download Zip: https://t.co/rRIKNwTKHy </div><div></div><div></div><div>It was not until some time after having passed through thecourse of training in two of our chief schools of art that theauthor got any idea of what drawing really meant. What was taughtwas the faithful copying of a series of objects, beginning with thesimplest forms, such as cubes, cones, cylinders, &c. (anexcellent system to begin with at present in danger of someneglect), after which more complicated objects in plaster of Pariswere attempted, and finally copies of the human head and figureposed in suspended animation and supported by blocks, &c. In sofar as this was accurately done, all this mechanical training ofeye and hand was excellent; but it was not enough. And when with aneye trained to the closest mechanical viaccuracy the authorvisited the galleries of the Continent and studied the drawings ofthe old masters, it soon became apparent that either his or theirideas of drawing were all wrong. Very few drawings could be foundsufficiently "like the model" to obtain the prize at either of thegreat schools he had attended. Luckily there was just enoughmodesty left for him to realise that possibly they were in somemysterious way right and his own training in some way lacking. Andso he set to work to try and climb the long uphill road thatseparates mechanically accurate drawing from artistically accuratedrawing.</div><div></div><div></div><div>If anybody looks at a picture by Claude Monet from the point ofview of a Raphael, he will see nothing but a meaningless jargon ofwild paint-strokes. And if anybody looks at a Raphael from thepoint of view of a Claude Monet, he will, no doubt, only see hard,tinny figures in a setting devoid of any of the lovely atmospherethat always envelops form seen in nature. So wide apart are some ofthe points of view in painting. In the treatment of form thesedifferences in point of view make for enormous variety in the work.So that no apology need be made for the large amount of spaceoccupied in the following pages by what is usually dismissed asmere theory; but what is in reality the first essential of any goodpractice in drawing. To have a clear idea of what it is you wish todo, is the first necessity of any successful performance. But ourexhibitions are viiifull of works that show how seldom this is thecase in art. Works showing much ingenuity and ability, but noartistic brains; pictures that are little more than school studies,exercises in the representation of carefully or carelessly arrangedobjects, but cold to any artistic intention.</div><div></div><div></div><div>At this time particularly some principles, and a clearintellectual understanding of what it is you are trying to do, areneeded. We have no set traditions to guide us. The times when thestudent accepted the style and traditions of his master and blindlyfollowed them until he found himself, are gone. Such conditionsbelonged to an age when intercommunication was difficult, and whenthe artistic horizon was restricted to a single town or province.Science has altered all that, and we may regret the loss of localcolour and singleness of aim this growth of art in separatecompartments produced; but it is unlikely that such conditions willoccur again. Quick means of transit and cheap methods ofreproduction have brought the art of the whole world to our doors.Where formerly the artistic food at the disposal of the student wasrestricted to the few pictures in his vicinity and some prints ofothers, now there is scarcely a picture of note in the world thatis not known to the average student, either from personalinspection at our museums and loan exhibitions, or from excellentphotographic reproductions. Not only European art, but the art ofthe East, China and Japan, is part of the formative influence bywhich he is surrounded; not to mention the modern science of lightand colour that has had such an influence on technique. It is nowonder that a period of artistic indigestion is upon us. Hence thestudent has need ixof sound principles and a clear understanding ofthe science of his art, if he would select from this mass ofmaterial those things which answer to his own inner need forartistic expression.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>Although it has been felt necessary to devote much space to anattempt to find principles that may be said to be at the basis ofthe art of all nations, the executive side of the question has notbeen neglected. And it is hoped that the logical method for thestudy of drawing from the two opposite points of view of line andmass here advocated may be useful, and help students to avoid someof the confusion that results from attempting simultaneously thestudy of these different qualities of form expression.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Provided the student realises this, and that art training canonly deal with the perfecting of a means of expression and that thereal matter of art lies above this and is beyond the scope ofteaching, he cannot have too much of it. For although he must everbe a child before the influence that moves him, if it is not withthe knowledge of the grown man that he takes off his coat andapproaches the craft of painting or drawing, he will be poorlyequipped to make them a means of conveying to others in adequateform the things he may wish to express. Great things are only donein art when the creative instinct of the artist has awell-organised executive faculty at its disposal.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Now an expression by means of one of our different senseperceptions does not constitute art, or 26the boy shouting atthe top of his voice, giving expression to his delight in life butmaking a horrible noise, would be an artist. If his expression isto be adequate to convey his feeling to others, there must be somearrangement. The expression must be ordered, rhythmic, or whateverword most fitly conveys the idea of those powers, conscious orunconscious, that select and arrange the sensuous material of art,so as to make the most telling impression, by bringing it intorelation with our innate sense of harmony. If we can find a roughdefinition that will include all the arts, it will help us to seein what direction lie those things in painting that make it an art.The not uncommon idea, that painting is "the production by means ofcolours of more or less perfect representations of natural objects"will not do. And it is devoutly to be hoped that science willperfect a method of colour photography finally to dispel thisillusion.</div><div></div><div></div><div>It is not enough in artistic drawing to portray accurately andin cold blood the appearance of objects. To express form one mustfirst be moved by it. There is in the appearance of all objects,animate and inanimate, what has been called an emotionalsignificance, a hidden rhythm that is not 32caught by theaccurate, painstaking, but cold artist. The form significance ofwhich we speak is never found in a mechanical reproduction like aphotograph. You are never moved to say when looking at one, "Whatfine form."</div><div></div><div></div><div>It is difficult to say in what this quality consists. Theemphasis and selection that is unconsciously given in a drawingdone directly under the guidance of strong feeling, are too subtleto be tabulated; they escape analysis. But it is this selection ofthe significant and suppression of the non-essential that oftengives to a few lines drawn quickly, and having a somewhat remoterelation to the complex appearance of the real object, morevitality and truth than are to be found in a highly-wrought andpainstaking drawing, during the process of which the essential andvital things have been lost sight of in the labour of the work; andthe non-essential, which is usually more obvious, is allowed tocreep in and obscure the original impression. Of course, had thefinished drawing been done with the mind centred upon theparticular form significance aimed at, and every touch and detailadded in tune to this idea, the comparison might have beendifferent. But it is rarely that good drawings are done this way.Fine things seem only to be seen in flashes, and the nature thatcan carry over the impression of one of these moments during thelabour of a highly-wrought drawing is very rare, and belongs to thefew great ones of the craft alone.</div><div></div><div></div><div>It is difficult to know why one should be moved by theexpression of form; but it appears to have some physical influenceover us. In looking at a fine drawing, say of a strong man, we seemto identify ourselves with it and feel a thrill of its strength in33our own bodies, prompting us to set our teeth,stiffen our frame, and exclaim "That's fine." Or, when looking atthe drawing of a beautiful woman, we are softened by its charm andfeel in ourselves something of its sweetness as we exclaim, "Howbeautiful." The measure of the feeling in either case will be theextent to which the artist has identified himself with the subjectwhen making the drawing, and has been impelled to select theexpressive elements in the forms.</div><div></div><div></div><div>On the other hand one is charmed also by the expression oflightness. This may be noted in much of the work of Botticelli andthe Italians of the fifteenth century. Botticelli's figures seldomhave any weight; they drift about as if walking on air, giving adelightful feeling of otherworldliness. The hands of the Madonnathat hold the Child might be holding flowers for any sense ofsupport they express. It is, I think, on this sense of lightnessthat a great deal of the exquisite charm of Botticelli's drawingdepends.</div><div></div><div></div><div>As will be explained later, in connection with academic drawing,it is eminently necessary for the student to train his eyeaccurately to observe the forms of things by the most painstakingof drawings. In these school studies feeling need not beconsidered, but only a cold accuracy. In the same way a singertrains himself to sing scales, giving every note exactly the sameweight and preserving a most mechanical time throughout, so thatevery note of his voice may be accurately under his control and beequal to the subtlest variations he may afterwards 35want toinfuse into it at the dictates of feeling. For how can thedraughtsman, who does not know how to draw accurately the cold,commonplace view of an object, hope to give expression to thesubtle differences presented by the same thing seen under theexcitement of strong feeling?</div><div></div><div> 31c5a71286</div>

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