Life Drawing and Figure Art

The Practice and Science of Drawing – Introduction

Comment Written by Figure Drawing on June 22, 2009 – 2:05 pm

Of the two divisions into which the technical study of painting can be divided, namely Form and Colour, we are concerned in this book with Form alone. But before proceeding to our immediate subject something should be said as to the nature of art generally, not with the ambition of arriving at any final result in a short chapter, but merely in order to give an idea of the point of view from which the following pages are written, so that misunderstandings may be avoided.

The variety of definitions that exist justifies some inquiry. The following are a few that come to mind:

“Art is nature expressed through a personality.”

But what of architecture? Or music? Then there is Morris’s “Art is the expression of pleasure in work.” But this does not apply to music and poetry.

Andrew Lang’s “Everything which we distinguish from nature” seems too broad to catch hold of, while

Tolstoy’s “An action by means of which one man, having experienced a feeling, intentionally transmits it to others” is nearer the truth, and covers all the arts, but seems, from its omitting any mention of rhythm, very inadequate.

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