Lectures on painting; delivered to the students of the Royal Academy (1883)
Armitage, Edward, 1817-1896 · New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons · leaf 185
und. In drawing the human figure either running orwalking, this must always be attended to, otherwisethe figure looks like anacademy model, with hishind foot comfortablypropped up on a box. It ispossible that for a fractionalpart of a second, a running-mans leg;- mio-ht assumethe vertical position… … xxJJ^^ ON DRAWING. 171 rapidly forward, the leg must assume a slantingposition, and our man will be off his balance, andunder the necessity of rapidly bringing to the fronthis other leg; and thus the idea of running isgiven, as in the preceding diagram. Flaxmans floating and aerial female figures…
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