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2 TEL. UNIVERSITY 4-4464 CARTOON - ROUGH ROMARE BEARDEN 351 WEST 114TH STREET NEW YORK CITY Leonardo states that to draw or compose without knowledge of pen is navigating a boat without a rudder. Such dicta are very dangerous if the conditions that premise the statement are not known. Leonardo who [[strikethrough]] is the [[/strikethrough]] culminates in his work the effort of the high Renaissance, and who is a master of space, nevertheless conceived of that space in the perspec. concept of an epoch that began long before he was born. Seurat, some 4 centuries later who stated that perspective is the unifying force of the picture, [[strikethrough]] is [[/strikethrough]] creates more of an enigma by his statement. [[strikethrough]] In the 1st place [[/strikethrough]] In his core we are not sure whether Seurat did not mean space in stead of perspective [[strikethrough]] since [[/strikethrough]] and he himself prefered the silhouetted [[strikethrough]] form [[strikethrough]] and very flattened form. The confusion caused by terminology in [[strikethrough]] the language of [[/strikethrough]] refering to art has caused the most havoc in the [[strikethrough]] problems [[/strikethrough]] questions of space, perspec, and plasticity. In the matter of space it is important to remember