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QUOTATIONS SUPPLIED ON REQUEST Henry Francis 8c Co. 280 BOURKE STREET and 111 COLLINS STREET, MELBOURNE 104 ALICE O'HARA, M.B., B.S. the Zpecutuni No. 119 NOVEMBER, 1926 $urface Anatomp (By J. S. MacDONALD.) To the artist, surface anatomy is of great importance and interest. It is not, however, as anatomy that it is of value to him, but because a knowledge of it gives him something general to go on in the way of appre- ciating and portraying appearances when dealing with living forms. For specific form he must rely on his eyes ; otherwise, when depicting any other animal than the human, he would need to be quite familiar with the anatomy of that particular one. Surface anatomy then is for him really apparent anatomy, and he has little concern for what actually lies under the skin. Most artists have taken a course of anatomy, and learned the canons of proportion and the general shapes , of muscles, bones, tendons,, fleshy and fatty regions, but nearly always (and quite rightly, and of necessity) these forms have been demonstrated to him as they should be at normal, This gives them a good starting-o1 point, but for developing in the direction of realism, painters must resort to the live model and their eyesight, and leave u. synthetic normality and knowledge behind, This synthesis was well recog- nised by the Greeks, who knew little or nothing of anatomy except by sight. They early composed their figures, taking from different models those models' best developed features and building up from them something ideal. As they never indulged in portraiture, but only carved the bodies of gods, heroes or athletes, their formula stood them in very good stead. Yet it was only while they remained a serene people that this composite, balanced type served them. In Hellenistic times they developed nerves and the desire to reproduce bodily nervous irregularity. They then resorted to the actual model, and recorded the portraits of individual, personal limbs and muscles. All those who followed them did, more or less, as the later Greeks did, and that is how the matter stands to-day. An inside knowledge of anatomy is of use to artists only for purposes of generalization. With such knowledge they can take their work some distance without models. They know their main proportions, and can approximate to the shape and surface variety of their various features, their relief or depression, relative lerigth and breadth, and the angles at which planes meet, cut into or recede from, each other. For pictorial purposes, the names of these parts of the human body, or their functions, do not bother them a ha'p'orth—they see men as trees, walking without anatomical significance. They know that, if they set down correctly the right light and shade, caught and cast by body holes and lumps, the proper anatomy will follow. Their eyes are less than most, men's antenna of extensible length. They see as on a ground glass, without acquired internal knowledge. And they are well acquainted with the vagaries of living forms, as may be easily grasped when one asks, 105 106 THE SPECULUM. 'What is the surface anatomy of a born cripple ?" Or the legs of a Masai, with his wavy shin bones and lank heels ? Why do some people possess a gastrocnemius like a cricket ball and high up toward the back of the knee. while others have that muscle shaped like an ear of maize; or sagging? Efficient or inefficient functioning seem to have nothing to do with it. Jim Jeffries had big joints ; Jim Corbett small ones.