Art culture: a hand-book of art technicalities and criticisms (1873)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900, Platt, W. H. (William Henry), 1821-1898 · New York : Wiley · leaf 294
ll materially helpyou in understanding the way trees generally hold outtheir hands; and if then you will turn yours with itspalm downwards, as if you were going to try to hidesomething, but with the fingers expanded, you will get agood type of the action of the lower boughs in cedars andsuch other… … Pig. 10. 248 SKETCHING. find lio^v the touches all group together, in expressing theplumy toss of the tree branches, and the springing of thebushes out of the bank, and the undulation of the ground:note the careful drawing of the footsteps made by theclimbers of the little mound on the left.* It is…
Art · Aesthetics
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