Cram, Ralph Adams, 1863-1942, Hastings, Thomas, 1860-1929, Bragdon, Claude Fayette, 1866-1946 · Chicago, Ill., Pub. for the Art Institute of Chicago by the University of Chicago Press · leaf 142
eatures are in scale. This we feel either instinc-tively or by observation. Now take an architectural example. Thereare certain buildings which do not look theirreal size. Instead of being impressed with theimmensity of a building, we are surprised to findhow small a man looks when we see him… … ARCHITECTURAL COMPOSITION unit of measure to compare it with we shouldscarcely notice the reduction. In building, all things are good in scale whenthey seem as large as they are. Bigness, for thesake of bigness, is small art. Often a smallthing looks bigger than some big thing whichlooks small. If…
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