Art culture : a hand-book of art technicalities and criticisms (1873)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · John Wiley and Son · leaf 288
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… … Fig. 6. to the last touch, which constitutes great or inventive work,separated from all common work by a.n impassable gulf. 240 THE MOTIVE OF LANDSCAPE. By diligently copying the etchings of the Liber Studi-orum, the reader may, however, easily attain the percep-tion of the existence of these…
Art · Aesthetics
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