EXPRESSION AND EMOTION
When we do not go to nature for expression we adopt certain conventional representations of emotion. By the means of these we are enabled to convey by such lines and tones the visible signs which the face gives when mental agitation is taking place.
Indifference, joy, anger, all the emotions, in fact, serve a useful purpose to the student of art.
On succeeding pages (Figs. 3-6) are given slight hints for what may be termed the emotions arranged in such a way as to be easily understood. The pupil may adopt, adapt, amend or exaggerate according to his own ideas and judgment and, of course, according to his advancement.
It should be understood that it is practically impossible to represent all the emotions with lifeless material. Many of the faces herewith shown might be unintelligible were it not for the text that accompanies them. How seldom it is that one can read the thoughts of even a real human being by means of the expression on his face merely. Nevertheless, some people can scarcely conceal their thoughts, although they speak not a word.
A man there was whose emotions were usually shown in his face. A bright young lady said to him: ''You shouldn't think so people can see you." What a splendid model he would have made!
The actor can make quick facial changes indicating the emotions he imitates, whereas the artist is limited to immovable lines. The artist must take one expression or, perhaps, merely a phase of the expression, and then attempt to represent the emotion he desires to portray, fixing it immovably, unchanging. He can portray but one movement of many that in life go to tell the story Oi emotion without words.
Emotion Pictures. In all ages workers with the brush and canvas, mallet and marble, have been practically unanimous in accepting certain representations of form to parallel, as well as they may, muscular and color changes caused by
mental emotion the telegraphic signals of the brain in action. Take, for instance, the facial diagram that portrays joy. In this the emotion is mostly expressed by the partly closed, but vivid eye, the mouth, w^ith lips slightly apart, and the corners of the mouth slightly elevated.
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