Art culture : a hand-book of art technicalities and criticisms (1873)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · John Wiley and Son · leaf 68
lways, to the curved form; and thatno human being of unprejudiced perceptions would desireto substitute triangles for the ordinary shapes of cloverleaves, or pentagons for those of potentillas. § 2. All curvature, however, is not equally agreeable;but the examination of laws which render one curve… … Take any number of lines, a b, b c, c d, &c, Fig. 2, 32 LINES. bearing any fixed proportion to each other. In this figure,b c is one-third longer than a b, and c d than b c, and soon. Arrange them in succession, keeping the inclination,or angle, which each makes with the preceding one alwaysthe…
Art · Aesthetics
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