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 122
o far as they PROPORTION IN CLOTHING, go, they furnish a method of representing proportion withwhich the art of the costumer cannot afford to dispense. Notice this fact as illustrated in certain universally ad-mired costumes of different periods, as sketched in Fig.41, page 80. The first figure to… … FIG. 42.—COSTUMES NOT DIVIDING HUMAN FORMS PROPORTIONATELY.See pages 81, 82. costumes, fashionable and not fashionable, in which thereare no suggestions of equal divisions. A glance at the re-sults will be enough to reveal their unaesthetic effects, andthat they are due to a lack of likeness in…
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