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a Mr. Hopkinson Talks

on Art Appreciation,



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“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. To gain perception it is use-
ful to train the eye to pick out effects
of light and shade in nature; and
finally to train the vision by looking
at good painting.



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don and will not be with us until next
season, when she will return to skate
up and down our stages in her best
manner. With her will come Noel
Coward in his own play, Conversation
Piece, with Yvonne Printemps. That
is at present running in London and
the English love it. Then Cochran
will present Elizabeth Bergner in
Escape Me Never. Miss Bergner is
at present playing Catherine the
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won the acclaim of all New York. 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. Af-
ter two years ofthis sort of thing
we are retiring to the comfort of the
Library, there to spend the remaining
days of our life browsing\about among

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Varsity Wins Game
_ Against Swarthmore



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