Beauty & ugliness : and other studies in psychological aesthetics (1912)
Lee, Vernon, 1856-1935, Anstruther-Thomson, Clementina · London : Lane · leaf 246
us shapesrepresented in the picture, fragments of lines whichmay be parts of hills, or figures, or draperies. As a result of this, we do not follow these lineswith movements of our whole balance as we did inlooking at the lines of architecture, because we couldnot mime, so to speak, all these… … BEAUTY AND UGLINESS 217 caressing gesture movements. These, which weshall call gesture movements, play a great part in theaesthetics of painting. For as, in art, the forces ofgravitation are not felt, we have no indication ofthe actual weight of things, but feel only the amountof weight necessary…
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