A Treatise on Art in Three Parts: Consisting of Essays on the Education of the Eye, Practical Hints on Composition, and Light and ShadeFrank V. Chambers, 1913 - 100 من الصفحات |
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... according as they depart from the parallel of the base line ; for example , if a person holds a pen or a stick parallel with the eyes , and gradually turns it around , he will see it gradually become shorter , until it assumes a mere ...
... according as they depart from the parallel of the base line ; for example , if a person holds a pen or a stick parallel with the eyes , and gradually turns it around , he will see it gradually become shorter , until it assumes a mere ...
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... according as they are situated above or below the observer's eye ; for instance , if a book is held up horizontally before the eye , the under cover will be seen when held above , and the lines of its sides appear to run down Fig . 8 ...
... according as they are situated above or below the observer's eye ; for instance , if a book is held up horizontally before the eye , the under cover will be seen when held above , and the lines of its sides appear to run down Fig . 8 ...
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... according as they commence from a near point , or one more removed . For example , if the hand is held near the eye , it will intercept a larger space than when held out at arm's length . Objects diminish in an increased ratio until ...
... according as they commence from a near point , or one more removed . For example , if the hand is held near the eye , it will intercept a larger space than when held out at arm's length . Objects diminish in an increased ratio until ...
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... according to their distance from the spectator , and that this diminution is more or less sudden according to the closeness of the spectator to the object . Upon this matter the taste and judgment of the artist is shown , because ...
... according to their distance from the spectator , and that this diminution is more or less sudden according to the closeness of the spectator to the object . Upon this matter the taste and judgment of the artist is shown , because ...
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... according to rule , will appear monstrous . This error proceeds from placing the point of distance too near the point of sight , by which means the diminution of objects is so sudden as to appear unnatural , unless you stand so near the ...
... according to rule , will appear monstrous . This error proceeds from placing the point of distance too near the point of sight , by which means the diminution of objects is so sudden as to appear unnatural , unless you stand so near the ...
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acquired aërial perspective Agatharchus agreeable appearance arrangement artist assist background beauty blue breadth of effect breadth of light Bridgewater Treatise camera obscura carried character chiaro oscuro circular color combination composition convey Corregio Cuyp diminished diminution distance Doctor Johnson drawing effect of light enables endeavored examination example figures foreground give greatest half-light half-tint hand harmony Heliodorus horizontal line images imagination inventions JOHN BURNET Leonardo da Vinci light and shade look Lystra Masaccio mass of light masters means Michael Angelo middle-tint mind mode Nature objects observe outline painter painting Paul Veronese perceive picture placed PLATE III-Fig Plate VII point of sight portion possess principal light principles produced Raffaelle rays recede regularity remarks Rembrandt rendered representation retina Reynolds Rubens says School of Athens sensations simplicity space spectator strong dark student thereby Tintoretto tints Titian truth variety vitreous humor whole
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الصفحة 48 - Cicero remarks, that not to know what has been transacted in former times, is to continue always a child. If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
الصفحة 2 - I do not mean that I would have your son a perfect painter ; to be that to any tolerable degree, will require more time than a young gentleman can spare from his other improvements of greater moment; but so much insight into perspective, and skill in drawing, as will enable him to represent tolerably on paper any thing he sees, except faces, may, I think, be got in a little time...
الصفحة 14 - ... must have, with his powers of colouring; a circumstance which was not likely to enter into the mind of an Italian painter, who probably would have been afraid of the linen's hurting the colouring of the flesh, and have kept it down of a low tint. And the truth is, that none but great colourists can venture to paint pure white linen near flesh; but such know the advantage of it...
الصفحة 35 - Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, . by calling imagination to the help of reason.
الصفحة 29 - Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest ; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.
الصفحة 15 - ... lively, and what is called a masterly, handling of the chalk or pencil, are, it must be confessed, captivating qualities to young minds, and become of course the objects of their ambition. They endeavour to imitate these dazzling excellencies, which they will find no great labour in attaining.
الصفحة 1 - When he can write well and quick, I think it may be convenient not only to continue the exercise of his hand in writing, but also to improve the use of it farther in drawing, a thing very useful to a gentleman...
الصفحة 27 - Angelo's works have a strong, peculiar, and marked character : they seem to proceed from his own mind entirely, and that mind so rich and abundant, that he never needed, or seemed to disdain, to look abroad for foreign help. Raffaelle's materials are generally borrowed, though the noble structure is his own.
الصفحة 4 - Rubens, who extracted his principles from their works, admitted many subordinate lights. The same rules, which have been given in regard to the regulation of groups of figures, must be observed in regard to the grouping of lights ; that there shall be a superiority of one over the rest, that they shall be separated, and varied in their shapes, and that there should be at least three lights : the secondary lights ought, for the sake of harmony and union, to be of nearly equal brightness, though not...