Proportion and harmony of line and color in painting, sculpture, and architecture; an essay in comparative aesthetics (1909)
Raymond, George Lansing, 1839-1929 · New York, London, G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 112
becomes so largeproportionately as tointerfere with the sug-gestions of a like curvein this, and in the out-lines of the hip, almosteverybody is consciousof receiving a sugges-tion of disproportion.With reference to thesecircles drawn about theforms, it will be no-ticed too that in thecase of a man… … 72 PROPORTION AND HARMONY. together at the shoulders than at the hips as they are nearertogether there than at the calves. (See Figs. 31, page 57;36, page 71 ; and 73, page 137.) In the case of a woman, thecircles seem to be very nearly at the same distance apartat the hips as at the shoulders.…
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