a. SEE, Ne PERSONALITY IN DRAWING THE ARTIST’S MISSION IN LIFE IS TO show the rest of mankind new beauty hitherto unsuspected in the things around them. Each great spirit through the ages has revealed beauty in things previously thought commonplace or even ugly, and each has left the world richer than before in understanding and appreciation. It is in the drawings of a great artist, however slight, that his real reactions to the universe about him are seen best. Here we may feel closest to the artist as he sees with blinding clarity some highly significant fact that he alone might give to the world. The grandeur of conception in Michelangelo and Rubens’ love of the beauty of flesh for its own sake have probably produced the grandest expositions of the noble mass and rich volume of human form, whereas from the great Chinese mas- ters comes a legacy of symbolized form manifesting universal significance of parti- cular objects in calligraphic brush strokes of utmost expressive content. ‘Degas, nearer our own time, delights us, through his sensitive pattern of outline, with the beauty of figures in action or repose. His fellow countryman, Toulouse-Lautrec, brings to life, through his keen, searching pencil, the vivacity and pathos of the human scene around him. It has been left to our great European contemporaries to show us the extreme distinction of line found in the human figure. Picasso and Matisse are supreme exponents of simplicity; Picasso being more of a classicist and concerned to a greater degree with form, while Matisse’s drawings show his highly developed sense of the decorative. Amongst modern English draughtsmen, the awareness of human values is vividly expressed by Augustus John’s sensitive line and by the vital strength of Meninsky. Thus, we inherit the accumulated revelations of all the sentient spirits who have lived from time to time, each sounding a new note in the ever unfolding har- mony of universal truth. To the young artist, developing his powers today, is entrusted the task of carrying on'the tradition, each one, with his personal vision, contributing in his own way, be it small or great, to the never ending adventure of seeing and understanding. Our class has been interested in this seeing and in this understanding.