Art culture : a hand-book of art technicalities and criticisms (1873)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · John Wiley and Son · leaf 294
ah c Fig. 7. as h, in which, observe, the boughs all carry their minordivisions right out to the bounding curve; not bat thatsmaller branches, by thousands, terminate in the heart ofthe tree, but the idea and main purpose in every branchare to carry all its child branches well out to the air… … Fig. 8. approximating, that is to say, so far to the structure of aplant of broccoli as to throw the great mass of spray andleafage out to a rounded surface ; therefore, beware ofgetting into a careless habit of drawing boughs with suc-cessive sweeps of the pen or brush, one hanging to theother, as…
Art · Aesthetics
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