Jackson, Frank G · London : Chapman & Hall · leaf 145
ss, the sur-faces are almost equally divided, giving to the surface ofthe leaf a monotonous effect by reason of the simplerepetition of similar masses. This law of even dis-tribution, to be rightly appreciated, in Nature or Art,should be viewed in the light of the fundamentalprinciples of… … EVEN DISTRIBUTION. expression of the same law, less beautiful because thebalance is disturbed by the preponderance of oneprinciple—repetition. What has been said about direc-tion, continuity, and composition of line, and thedistribution of lines and masses in laying out adesign, applies with equal…
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