Author: Otto Fuchs

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 22

ISBN-13: 9781230438542

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... INTRODUCTION In my career as an art teacher, which extends over a period of many years, I have often been impressed with the deficiency in even a moderate knowledge of perspective on the part of young artists, who, in a general way, were possessed of considerable ability, but for some reason or other had failed to enter into the study of this branch of art, which teaches the underlying principles upon which all object drawing is founded. Strange as it may seem, I have often heard artists speak flippantly about perspective, even to the extent that some declared it is not necessary for an artist to trouble himself about studying perspective, because they believe that by the continued practice of drawing sufficient knowledge of its principles can be acquired to answer all practical purposes. That some facility is acquired without any special study in this way is undoubtedly true; yet is it not equally true that while some, whose perceptive faculties are more acute than those of others, may acquire a fair degree of accuracy in drawing, many gain but little and spoil much of their work--which in everything else may be very clever, but sadly defective in drawing---through blunders made by reason of the want of knowledge of perspective? I have often been asked by students to recommend a text-book on perspective, and was ever at a loss which to advise, some being so elementary that they do not carry the practical application far enough, while others are based upon the assumption that the student is sufficiently versed in geometry and projection to comprehend the more advanced and scientific treatise, which, however, in the absence of such preparation, is utterly unintelligible to the beginner. The object I have in mind, and the end I shall...