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 306
rapplied to separate parts of objects or to their wholes, toa single leaf or to a cluster of leaves, to a branch or to acluster of branches, to a tree or to a grove, to a particularobject that may be examined near at hand, or to generaloutlines described by trees and rivers in the distance.The same… … FIG. 91—CURVE EXEMPLIFYING GRADATION.See pages 282 and 284. It is well to notice, too, that, as a rule, the lines ofcurvature in natural objects are not perfectly circular, anymore than the lines of radiation or parallelism are per-fectly straight. On the contrary, the most common out-line in…
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