An examination of the match between the two vision assessments (not reported earlier) showed that 91 respondents
whose visual acuity fell in the moderately decreased to poor range rated their vision to be good to excellent and an additional 63 respondents
whose visual acuity fell in the normal to good range rated their vision as fair or poor.
There he was introduced to the work of Mark Gertler, Henry Moore, Augustus John and other prominent English artists of the time
whose emphasis on
visual acuity and technical skill would have a major effect on Mead and accounted for the restraint of his early paintings.