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Title: Drawing for beginners
Year: 1920 (1920s)

Dorothy Furniss  (1879–1944)
Description	artist
Date of birth/death	1879	1944
Authority file	: Q18784974 VIAF: 92987496 NLA: 35646186 Open Library: OL2371342A

Subjects: Drawing -- Study and teaching
Publisher: Pelham, N. Y. : Bridgman Publishers
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ith a bundle of papers beneath his arm ; a swan floatingdouble past a tuft of reedy grasses ; an old man leaning ona thick stick or with a bundle on his back and climbing asteep path ; a woman sitting under the light with her sewinggrouped at her elbow ; boys and girls gathered about a game,or fire, or a gate—all these are natural compositions, andcharming ones. You might turn your attention to advertisements, for theseare arranged with a view to attracting the eye and grippingthe attention. Look at them as so many patterns, and askyourself if the allotted spaces have been filled pleasantly. Look at reproductions of the Great Masters. The wonder-ful way in which these painters grouped their subjects is aneducation in itself. The extraordinary simplicity of thearrangement, action, and composition will often surprise you. The shapes of some pictures have given rise to quaintlegends, and probably the most famous of all is that ofRaphaels Madonna della Sedia, or Madonna of the Chair,180
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103. Thk Madonna uella SediaRaphael Photo Anderiion 180 Action and Composition The story goes that Raphael was passing through a villageat vintage time, and seeing a mother and child sitting in adoorway was filled with a desire to paint the beautiful group.The only materials to hand were empty wine-vats. On oneof these Raphael seized, and began this picture on the up-turned bottom of the vat. Then Raphael snatched a half-charred ozier stick,And on the wine-cask at that moment drewThat Child and Mother, just then glorifiedBy the last sunshines deepest, softest hue. The picture is treasured as one of the worlds most beautifulpaintings, but whether the wine-vat legend was invented toexplain the peculiar shape we shall never know. As a com-position pure and simple, look and judge for yourself. 181 CHAPTER XV Light and Shade WHAT constitutes light and shade ? is a questionmore easily asked than answered.Briefly, all objects on which light falls presentlight and shade. Twist a piece of pape

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