great asits width, giving the proportion of three to one.Any other proportion could have been taken as wellwith the same curve; but any other proportionmight not have been as pleasing, or it might havebeen more pleasing, as it was more simple or subtlethan the one used. AVith the same cin-ve draw… … 136 TEACHERS MANUAL. portion has a decided influence upon the pleasingappearance of the vases. The proportion, one toone, gives the most disagreeable form of all. Whyis this ? We can only say that the simpler the pro-portion, and the more easily it is detected b} thee3e, the less pleasing the…
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