The genesis of art-form; an essay in comparative æsthetics showing the identity of the sources, methods, and effects of composition in music, poetry, painting, sculpture and architecture (1893)
Raymond, George Lansing, 1839-1929 · New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons · leaf 108
ramount of blue in the sea opposite to them. As exemplified in the human figure, and so in sculpture,balance can never be fully understood, except as it istreated in connection with both symmetry and proportion.Here it is sufficient to point out that, as a rule, in orderto secure variety, the limbs… … FIG. 28.-A SMALL HOUSE.See pages 85, 96, 124, 187. making an exertion in one direction sufficient to-counter-act that made in the other. For this reason, when one isgesturing, or appearing to gesture, his hands and head, ifthe latter be not kept still, should make counteractingmovements. The head…
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