Architect and engineer . en thesaplings. It was thenthe first practicalman-made structurecame into being. When the think-ing being first beganto notice and admirebeauty in nature hesought to expresshimself by addingart to his crafts. Hedecorated his may be expectedthese early worksshow no originality,merely ingenious-ness. <^ 33 ? It is conceivable that intellectual growthbegan not in any given center but wasspontaneous as was mans beginning. Through eons ot time many races ad-vanced to cultural heights in widely scat-tered centres. Others progressed but littleand perhaps passed
Architect and engineer . en thesaplings. It was thenthe first practicalman-made structurecame into being. When the think-ing being first beganto notice and admirebeauty in nature hesought to expresshimself by addingart to his crafts. Hedecorated his may be expectedthese early worksshow no originality,merely ingenious-ness. <^ 33 ? It is conceivable that intellectual growthbegan not in any given center but wasspontaneous as was mans beginning. Through eons ot time many races ad-vanced to cultural heights in widely scat-tered centres. Others progressed but littleand perhaps passed out of existence. Someon the other hand rose only to the stage ofmediocrity. natural form. The second, romantic oridealistic, treats the subject in an imagina-tive manner. The third commences by con-ventionalising the natural form until it isextended into the abstract. The last couldbe said to be the most creative and advanc-ed of the three. In general the first is represented by theGreek. The second by the Gothic. The. PLATE 1 Among the races that attained to thehighest degree of culture were the littleknown so-called ancient Mayas. As weare considering these important people andtheir extraordinary art it is right that theybe accredited their proper place in therealm of world culture. In attempting aclassification of their art we have three dis-tinct types to bear in mind. Each type maybe considered a school, each with distinc-tive underlying principles. The first schoolis realism in design. Which means the de-sign attains perfection as it approaches the third by the Maya. This is a very import-ant point to remember. An understandingof these fundamental principles will mate-rially assist in arriving at a true apprecia-tion of the extraordinary Maya Becomes MotifTo make myself clear I submit an ex-ample to illustrate briefly how the Mayascarried through conventionalism to thepoint of the abstract in design. On PlateNo. 1 is seen a number of sketches com-mencing with
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