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 140
FIQ. 46—FIGURE DIVIDED BY LINES.See pages go, 97, 98. the form that is fitted to make the strongest appeal to ourcombined instinctive and reflective, in other words, to ouremotive nature. It seems necessary in this place, therefore, to say some-thing about the representative possibilities of the… … FIG. 47—FRONT FACE it of regularity and irregularity. This latter, as we know, when it exists by itself alone, with nothing to counteractit, is confusing and therefore disagree-able ; and the mind associates uglinesswith it rather than beauty. How thiseffect can be avoided, by introducingregularity…
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