ART POLE..........................................SCIENCE POLE

Realism | Conventionalism | Disguised | Botanical
(See § 10). | (See § 14). | Artificialism | Analysis
| | (See § 6). | (See § 5).


§ 5.--THE BOTANICAL ANALYSIS TREATMENT.

In this method the student was taught (i) to draw each plant with the
Stem _straightened out_, the Leaves _flattened out_, and the Flowers
represented as in _side elevation_ or _plan_. (ii) The Flowers were
further _pulled in pieces_, and the Petals were _flattened out_ in a
manner similar to the Entomologists' practice of displaying their
"specimens" scientifically. Often, also (iii) the Stems and Buds were
_cut through_; and "patterns" were made with the Sections.

With regard to the first of these practices (i): it should be observed
that much of the beauty of appearance of natural foliage results from
the variety of view, the subtile curvature, and the foreshortening, as
seen in perspective; and that to sacrifice all these for the sake of a
_diagram_ would be a wasted opportunity.

With regard to the other practices (ii) and (iii): it is obvious that
these statements of the facts of the plant are useful as a part of the
Science of Botany; but can no more be considered as making Decoration
than Anatomical diagrams can be looked upon as Pictures. Some
knowledge of external Botany is useful to a Pattern artist as some
knowledge of external Anatomy is useful to the Pictorial artist. In
each of these cases, the Science, which discovers and records facts,