THE FIGURE IN SCULPTURE AND PAINTING N modern times with the coming of advertising and its magical growth, the figure, besides being used in painting and sculpture, is seen everywhere—bill- boards, magazines, store window models, and so on. A piece of work is classed as high grade or cheap ac- cording to the correctness with which the figure is drawn. The reason, of course, for this universal demand that figures be correctly drawn is that the figure represents Life, and that proper proportion and balance are necessary to life. An artist can change the proportion or shape of a table, for instance, as he draws it, and it will still look like a table, but he cannot change the pro- portions of a human being and have it representative of Life. As art students we have learned to appreciate the value of through study of the figure. As architectural students study the five great orders to gain familiarity and understanding of fine propor- tion and line, so we realize more and more that the study of the greatest piece of architecture of all time, the figure, is developing our judgment and taste and that this better feeling for line and proportion is showing in all our work. PAULINE FRANCIS
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