Art culture : a hand-book of art technicalities and criticisms (1873)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · John Wiley and Son · leaf 67
equeredpatterns, is often exquisitely delightful;and yet we do not therefore consider, mthe abstract, blackness to be beautiful. Just in the same way straightnessmingled with curvature, that is to say,the close approximation of part of anycurve to a straight line, gives to suchcurve all its spring,… … LINES. 31 Tims, in the opposite figure (Fig. 1), the eye willinstantly prefer the semicircle to the straight line; the tre-foil (composed of three semicircles) to the triangle; andthe cinqfoil to the pentagon. The mathematicianmay perhaps feel an opposite preference; but hemust be conscious that he…
Art · Aesthetics
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