Binyon Shows Primitive Elements in Chinese Art

"Its connection with the primitive elements of nature is one of the most important factors in early Chinese art," said Mr. Laurence Binyon, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, last night, in the first of a series of six lectures on Asiatic art.

Mr. Binyon emphasized the importance of animals in the earliest portraits made by man. Before the era of Buddhism, the speaker stated, Chinese art was distinguished by a delicacy and sureness of touch and a love of sinuous movement, with curiosity and mystery flourishing side by side with refinement and wisdom.