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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... brought off a dark ground , and the dark side opposed to a light ground . This , no doubt , was the practice when the arts were in their infancy ; but , had he lived to see what has been produced by the contrary method , he would have ...
... brought off a dark ground , and the dark side opposed to a light ground . This , no doubt , was the practice when the arts were in their infancy ; but , had he lived to see what has been produced by the contrary method , he would have ...
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... brought into notice , while other parts are made subservient , by being thrown into shade or more intercepted by their situations . Action and repose , masses convex and concave , lines regular or picturesque , spaces diminishing or ...
... brought into notice , while other parts are made subservient , by being thrown into shade or more intercepted by their situations . Action and repose , masses convex and concave , lines regular or picturesque , spaces diminishing or ...
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... brought into notice ; but the art of combining the whole , in a harmonious mass of chiaro oscuro , can be acquired only by long investigation into the principles of those who have excelled in this captivating and imaginative art ...
... brought into notice ; but the art of combining the whole , in a harmonious mass of chiaro oscuro , can be acquired only by long investigation into the principles of those who have excelled in this captivating and imaginative art ...
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... brought in contact , the most prominent with the most retiring . In compositions constructed on this principle ( particularly where the landscape occupies a large portion ) , many artists carry the lines of the clouds in a contrary ...
... brought in contact , the most prominent with the most retiring . In compositions constructed on this principle ( particularly where the landscape occupies a large portion ) , many artists carry the lines of the clouds in a contrary ...
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... brought in contact ; and the light passing through the iris gives it its transparency , and serves instead of reflected light to clear up the shadow ; the watery fluid , in the bottom of the eye and on the under eyelid , gives us that ...
... brought in contact ; and the light passing through the iris gives it its transparency , and serves instead of reflected light to clear up the shadow ; the watery fluid , in the bottom of the eye and on the under eyelid , gives us that ...
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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...