Maurice de Sausmarez describes how students working on their own, without art school facilities or expensive equipment, can pursue a course of study which will reveal to him the fundamental pictorial elements of all artistic expression and the dynamic forces contained in these elements.
Clarifying a subject about which there has been some confusion of thought and containing a very wide variety of magnificent illustrations, this book will be of great value to professional and amateur young artists. It is a 'must use' for all art teachers and art students.
Reissued to coincide with a centenary exhibition of his work at the University of Leeds in October 2015,followed by an exhibition at the Redfern Gallery in London in Spring 2016.