The essentials of aesthetics in music, poetry, painting, sculpture and architecture (1909)
Raymond, George Lansing, 1839-1929 · New York : G.P. Putnam · leaf 337
inmind in connection with continuity is that it is an ele-ment of unity. So if in a foreground there be a row orgroup of trees stretching backward interrupted by a plain,it is well if, farther back, the same line of direction becarried on, if not by trees, then, say, by a river, and stillfarther in… … 3IO THE ESSENTIALS OF ESTHETICS. arrangements may characterise figures as represented ineither painting or sculpture. Notice this in the direc-tions taken by the different limbs of the figures in theLaocoon, Fig. 19, page 123. In architecture, everyone must have observed that, as a rule, we derive…
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