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Passage 4
Art probably owes more to form for its range of expression than to color . Art expresses using form as a medium of expression rather than directly conveying or saying anything which makes it a very noble and unique form of expression . One of the most interesting fact is that many of the world ’s greatest artists have been very restricted in their use of color , they have used form as a chief appealing factor in their artwork . It is reported that both Apelles and Rembrandt used only three colors , black , red , and yellow , and nothing else . One of the first and last thing that the painter studies is the drawing . Drawing and Painting is something that an artist learns through constant application and effort rather than by teaching alone . It is more to be developed by the artist himself . Color is something that cannot be taught , it is more dependant on the perception and the natural sense or taste that the artist has . A well-trained eye for the appreciation of form is what every student should set as a target for himself to acquire focusing all his effort on this
It is not enough in artistic drawing to just portray accurately the appearance of objects . To express form , one must first be moved by it . Every object , whether it is animate or inanimate has an innate rhythm and emotion attached to it . This rhythm and emotion is what is to be felt and captured by the artist when he gives a form to it . The form can never be captured if it is just a mechanical reproduction of the object like in a photograph . Looking at a mechanical reproduction , never induced the feeling of awe in anyone .
It is difficult to say in what this quality consists . It is very difficult to analyse an art form as it is not possible to tabulate the emphasis and selection that is unconsciously given in a drawing which is made under the guidance of strong feeling . This emotion is too subtle to be tabulated ; they escape analysis . It is this emotion captured in the form of few lines which that gives a relation to the complex appearance of the real object and has more vitality and truth than what is found in a highly-wrought and painstaking drawing . In the later , the essential and vital things have been lost sight of in the labor of the work ; and the non-essential , which is usually more obvious , is allowed to creep in and obscure the original impression . Of course , had the completed drawing been done with the mind centered upon the particular form significance which was aimed at , and every touch and detail added in tune to this idea , the comparison might have been completely different . But it is rarely that good drawings are done this way .