Harold Speed was an English artist in the nineteenth and twentieth century who specialised in Watercolour and Oils. He wrote this book in 1917, and also another – The Practice and science of Oil Painting. At this time Art had moved through the Romanticism of the Mid-Victorian age, the Classicism of the French Revolutions, and the Impressionist movement was giving way to Modernism as Cezanne and Picasso and Duchamp were experimenting greatly with what art could be.
Speed is concerned with depicting accurate drawing as taught in ateliers and academies, but not so rigidly that the artist loses the subject’s soul.
KEY LEARNING OUTCOME
Artistic ‘dither’ between representation and artistic gesture – find your own balance between the two.
Neil C Drawing 2 