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 282
the natural requirements 258 THE GENESIS OF ART-FORM. of art. For both reasons, the architect needs to be ex-ceedingly careful in his work. A painter has but tocopy a tree as he sees it in nature, and every part of itwill be consonant. The leaves or branches will differ insize and shape and, in the… … FIG. 85.—CHATEAU DE RANDAU, VICHY, FRANCE.See pages 124, 180, 262. itself in every part of the tree that no one who sees it candoubt that each belongs to the same organism. A build-ing should appear to be as much a unity in this sense as atree. Exact repetition of the same forms, as…
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