Painting, sculpture and architecture as representative arts; an essay in comparative æsthetics (1895)
Raymond, George Lansing, 1839-1929 · New York [etc.] G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 103
g at Jiap-hazard alarge number of long lines describing shapes, and thenexamining them, and the ways in which they are relatedto one another. Upon doing this, we shall find, first,that, in the degree in which the lines have been dashedoff instinctively, i. e., with no reflection, the natural… … dency toward straightness, necessitating, of course, theuse of angles ; and, third, that in the degree in which theyhave been the results of a restful, in the sense of a pas-sive emotive state, the curves or straight lines are long, the angles few and sim-ilar, and the shapescomparatively regu-lar…
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