American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 243
se easyand elegant outline is drawn after the same rule, — that is, by a line which must be found by meansof several circles, — for all these works have an elliptical figure, and herein consists their beauty. Thegreater unity there is in the junction of the forms, and in the flowing of one out of… … Fair Ines. Drawn by Freer. shades and colors. Compare the gradated colors of the rainbow with the stripes of a target, and thegradual concentration of the youthful blood in the cheek with an abrupt patch of rouge or with thesharply-drawn veining of old age. Smoothness, Burke says, is a quality so…
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