Art culture : a hand-book of art technicalities and criticisms (1873)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · John Wiley and Son · leaf 108
he next point we haveto consider is, how we may unitethese lines or processions them-selves, so as to make groups of them. Now, there are two kinds of har-monies of lines. One in which,moving more or less side by side,they variously, but evidently withconsent, retire from or approacl l eachother,… … Fig. 20. currents of melody 66 COMPOSITION. with a great unity through, all; and so various lines ofcomposition often flow harmoniously through and acrosseach other in a picture. But the most simple and perfectconnexion of lines is by radiation ; that is, by their allspringing from one point, or…
Art · Aesthetics
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