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Representative art
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will always depend upon the presence of a formal element that is
not identical with the form found in nature.
Stress must be laid upon the distinctive points of view from which
the two methods of graphic representation develop, because the
development of perspective drawing is often represented as growing
b
Fig. 73. Koryak carvings.
out of the cruder symbolic method. As a matter of fact the two
have distinct psychologial sources which remain active in the early,
as well as in the late history of art. Vierkandt1 designates the
various methods of representation as suggestive (andeutend), descrip-
tive (beschreibend), and perspective (anschaulich). Of these the
former two correspond to what I have called here symbolic. They
1 Das Zeichnen der Naturvolker, Zeitschrift fur angewandte Psychologie, Vol. 6,
(1912), pp. 347 et seq.
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will always depend upon the presence of a formal element that is
not identical with the form found in nature.
Stress must be laid upon the distinctive points of view from which
the two methods of graphic representation develop, because the
development of perspective drawing is often represented as growing
b
Fig. 73. Koryak carvings.
out of the cruder symbolic method. As a matter of fact the two
have distinct psychologial sources which remain active in the early,
as well as in the late history of art. Vierkandt1 designates the
various methods of representation as suggestive (andeutend), descrip-
tive (beschreibend), and perspective (anschaulich). Of these the
former two correspond to what I have called here symbolic. They
1 Das Zeichnen der Naturvolker, Zeitschrift fur angewandte Psychologie, Vol. 6,
(1912), pp. 347 et seq.