Arbor vitae : a book on the nature & development of imaginative design for the use of teachers, handicraftsmen & others (1910)
Blount, Godfrey · London : A.C. Fifield · leaf 125
ve by subtle balancings of correspondingcurves, and things are well drawn when they obey this aesthetic lawand bend their differing characteristics to illustrate it. Look, forinstance, at this picture of a hare painted on the body of an archaicGreek bowl, round which it is supposed to be careering… … Fig. 15.—a Running Hare Speed he was content to leave out of his picture. He has learnt noanatomy, no foreshortening, and does not want to; he cannot drawhalf as well as an Academy student, and his chance of benefitingby the patronage of that body would certainly be small; but, forall that, the…
Decoration and ornament
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