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 141
est the idea of organic form, and not only so, but of thisproduced as a result of design. As the same effect isimparted by almost any approximately symmetrical dis-position of parts, artists resort to methods that, at first,would seem to suggest separation rather than unity.Thus a wedge-shape is… … FIG. 39—MADONNA DELLA SEDIA.—RAPHAEL. Il8 THE GENESIS OF ART-FORM. descend in a similar way on its other side (see Fig. 51,page 175); or the whole painting is divided into two parts,one containing forests or hills and the other plains, water,or sky (see Fig. 40, page 119). As has been intimated…
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