Art culture : a hand-book of art technicalities and criticisms (1873)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · John Wiley and Son · leaf 111
ch flakes to an extended hand; butthey may be more accu-rately represented bythe ribs of a boat. Ifyou can imagine a verybroad-headed and flat-tened boat applied byits keel to the end of a main branch,f as in Fig. 25., * The reader, I hope, observes always that every line in these fig-ures is… … Fig. 25. COMPOSITION. GO the lines which its ribs will take, and the general con-tour of it, as seen in different directions, from above andbelow; and from one side and another, will give you theclosest approximation to the perspectives and foreshort-ening of a well-grown branch-flake. Fig- 26.…
Art · Aesthetics
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