fie te _able merchants. v Page doit | THE COLLEGE NEWS a Mr. Hopkinson Talks on Art Appreciation, - Continued from Page One +“ : “rest. upon as it goes back to the pic- ture. That at least is the correct at- titude for the artist, that the model he is about to paint is not to be slav- ishly copied,‘but to be used to create reality by taking its place in a part of the artist’s predetermined: scheme of things: The artist is saved from photo- graphic art as well by the materials he employs as by his individual con- _cept of reality. The color ‘scale he possesses is less extensive than that of nature and constitutes a fundamen- tal obstacle to exact reproduction, Al- though an amateur may try to paint the color as he sees it, he fails, for ‘be cannot. duplicate the wide scale of. natural colors; He must arrange his scale to fit his own world. The Italian primitives of the four- teenth and fifteenth centuries Wid not follow the practice of the moderns, who attain more truth to nature in painting light and shadow by using neutral colors for shadow and strong for light, yet their pictures have vi- tality in spite of untruth to nature. Perhaps the reason may be found in the fact that, although they\reversed the modern process and put ‘strong colors in the shadow and made the lights paler, they adhered to a defi- nite color scale; they created a color hierarchy of their own, true in spite of its falsity to the laws of light and shadow in painting. An element of a picture especially interesting for the artist is its pat- tern. Any picture is more or less a pattern made by any arrangement of linés within a rectangle. The divi- sions are vertical, horizontal and diag- onal and if the pattern coincides with these divisions, so much the better will it fit its rectangular frame. The figures or other component parts of a picture must balance in form as well as in disposition of light and dark areas. i To attain this balance two fairly common rules of symmetry—balance and dynamics—may be used... The principle of dynamic symmetry was used again and again in Renaissance art, notably in Velasquez’ Surrender of Breda. The mean and extreme proportion of dynamic symmetry is extremely pleasing to the eye—a fact which may explain the appeal of square-rigged ships. The measure- ment of Greek temples and vases re- vealed the fact that eighty per cent. of them fall within the principle of dynamic symmetry. Any painter may follow his illus- trious predecessors in arranging: his composition; he has only to take a rectangle, draw diagonals in it and draw right angles from those diag- onals, putting objects, such as a head, the corner of a room, a table, on the lines of the angles and symmetry results. And a painter, especially a portrait painter, can get along very well in this fashion; but if he applies the rules of dynamic symmetry in a slavish, conscious fashion, the fin- ished picture will inevitably present a rigid pattern to the seeing eye. If one knows the principle behind the pattern of such a picture, the compo- sition seems tiresome. Certain litho- graphs of prize-fighting done by George Bellows are all designed on this same principle of rigid and un- deviating symmetry and, consequent- ly, lack subtlety. For the painter, the real subject- matter of a picture is something else than the object-painted or its associa- tions; the relation of lines, tones of color, light and shade interests him; and it is immaterial whether they centre about a tree or a gas pump. _.his_indifference to subject-matter..is.| . naturally carried over from concep- tion to perception of a picture by him, and if the layman wishes actual- ly to enjoy art, he must: imitate the artist. 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A great piece of work on the part of her press agent’ managed to get the film banned from Germany because she is a Jewess and at present the Astor Theatre is a ‘sort of meeting place for all those wishing to register a protest with Hitler. They probably haven’t stopped to consider that Hit- ler may not care and that the Eng- lish company. is practically..erecting a statue to his fame as a result of the proceeds that_roll_in...Then the one and only Gertrude Lawrence will re- turn to these shores in Nymph Er- rant, the tale of a lady who wanders around Europe with the greatest of pleasure and sings Cole Porter’s mu- sic as\she goes. It sounds very much as though next season is going to be fully as amusing as the present one has been and, still is. And so to bed, gentle readers. 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