Formal Design In Art

The rout of san Romano, by Paolo Uccello, showing a cavaly victory of the florentines over he Science in 1432, and Sunday at the grande jatte painted by Georges seurat in 1884, have much in common, though they belong to ifferent countries and epochs. Both Uccello and seurat were men of scientific intellect: Uccello was devoted to the study of perspective, seurat to the science of related colours. Their pictures are attempts to solve the problems which interested them, and demand in each case that natural fact should be organized into a system of forms. Thus the horses in the battle scene and the French bourgeois are conventionalized.

Naturalism in stone age drawing

This bison from the cave of Altamira in Spain, was drawn by stone age man about 10,000 B.C. As far as naturalism goes it surpasses anythin created by our own primitive peoples or even the bet animal draughtsmen, and shows a still higher level of accomplishment then the draing by the Bushman reproduced on the opposite page. It reveals the same astonishing power in drawing of capuring with the utmost sobriety and precision a momentary effect.