The crown of wild olive ; also, Munera pulveris ; Pre-Raphaelitism ; Aratra Pentelici ; The ethics of the dust ; Fiction, fair and foul ; The elements of drawing (1800)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900, Ruskin, John, 1819-1900. Munera pulveris, Ruskin, John, 1819-1900. Pre-Raphaelitism, Ruskin, John, 1819-1900. Aratra Pentelici, Ruskin, John, 1819-1900. Ethics of the dust, Ruskin, John, 1819-1900. Ficton, fair and foul, Ruskin, John, 1819-1900. Elements of drawing · Boston : Aldine Book Pub. · leaf 837
he idea oftheir softness of surface. A distant tree is not a flat and evenpiece of colour, but a more or less globular mass of a downyor bloomy texture, partly passing into a misty vagueness. Ifind, practically, this lovely softness of far-away trees the mostdifficult of all characters to reach,… … follow that a bough is wrong-ly drawn, because it looks con-tracted unnaturally some-where, as in Fig. 26., justabove the foliage. Very oftenthe muscular action which isto be expressed by the line,runs into the middle of thebranch, and the actual outlineof the branch at that place maybe dimly seen,…
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