Perspective, a series of elementary lectures (1899)
Cone, Ada · New York, W.T. Comstock · leaf 54
48 PERSPECTIVE. The irregularities are special truths and mark the in¬ dividuality of each leaf, but art is concerned with types more than with special truths, and the artist who rightly depicts a flower must indicate its essential form, and must show that the variations are not mere chance without… … Flowers have either bi-lateral symmetry, like the pansy, or the stellar symmetry of the daisy. The plan or general outline of the latter class is the circle. The petals radiate from the centre and are balanced and equal. Fig. 22 A gives the construction as seen from above or below, the radiating…
Perspective · Drawing
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