Proportion and harmony of line and color in painting, sculpture, and architecture: an essay in comparative sthetics (1899)
Raymond, George Lansing, 1839-1929 · New York [etc.] : G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 74
PROPORTION AND PERSPECTIVE. 35 whether a painting, a statue, or a building, has to be judged by what may be termed, and is, in this sense, its subjective effect after it has begun to influence the eye and mind. … FIG. 8. -TYPE OF AN ASSYRIAN SQUARE. See pages 40, 43, 44, 162. Is it necessary to argue that this truth is not generally recognized ? When a man with a yardstick is measuring, close at hand, the parts of the Parthenon, then, according to the generally accepted representation, he is studying…
Aesthetics · Proportion (Art) · Color
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