Art culture : a hand-book of art technicalities and criticisms (1873)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · John Wiley and Son · leaf 287
he twogroups composing it; the lower is purely symmetrical,with trefoiled centre and broad masses for wincrs: theuppermost is a sweeping continuous curve, symmetrical,but foreshortened. Both are clasped by arrow-shapedleaves. The two whole groups themselves are. in turn, 238 THE MOTIVE OF… … Fig. 4. § 14c. Unless every leaf, and every visible point orobject, however small, forms a part of some harmony ofthis kind (these symmetrical conditions being only the most THE MOTIVE OF LANDSCAPE. 239 simple and obvious), it has no business in the picture. It isthe necessary connection of all the…
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