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 116
onfirst glancing at this, one may think that there is neitherneed nor evidence of any regard for proportion in it.But if what has been said thus far in this volume be true,effects of proportion, aesthetically considered, are alwaysimportant ; and an absence of them will always exertsome influence,… … 76 PROPORTION AND HARMONY. the measurements for which we are in search need to bealike not in the object itself but in the appearance whichit presents, and beginning at the right margin, notice thesame apparent distance between it and a part of the bushnear the bottom of the picture; then the same…
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