Art culture : a hand-book of art technicalities and criticisms (1873)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · John Wiley and Son · leaf 99
lepiece of ruffled silk, and leaping up a little as two chil- 56 COMPOSITION. dren kiss and clap their hands, and then going on again,each in its silent hurry, drawing pointed arches on thesand as their thin edges intersect in parting; but all thiswould not have been enough expressed without the… … Fig. 13. I need not, I hope, point out to the reader the illustra-tion of this law of continuance in the subject chosen forour general illustration. It was simply that gradual suc-cession of the retiring arches of the bridge which inducedTurner to paint the subject at all; and it was this…
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