Figure drawing and composition : being a number of hints for the student and designer upon the treatment of the human figure by Richard G. Hatton (1895)
Hatton, Richard George, 1864-1926 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 30
10 FIGURE DRAWING AND COMPOSITION a development towards excellence ; the fingers, the hand itself, while not losing their simplicity of statement, became truer and truer to form, as seen,— for all knowledge in art came then by sight. With all its rudeness the glass painting here reproduced… … Fig. i. — Glass Painting (thirteenth century). (By permission of John B. Hard man, Esq.) only the truth of the form as expressed in the outline, but the conception of the subject itself. It is in Italian Art that the progress from the simple statement to the deceptive aspect can best be studied.…
Figure drawing · Human figure in art · Anatomy, Artistic
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