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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... various situations , being set upright , and also viewed in a horizontal position , that the eye may become thoroughly acquainted with the figures in all their variety of shapes , and with the causes of their alterations in form . Fig ...
... various situations , being set upright , and also viewed in a horizontal position , that the eye may become thoroughly acquainted with the figures in all their variety of shapes , and with the causes of their alterations in form . Fig ...
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... various objects subject to those laws which regulate their appearance in Nature . " LINES . All lines are subject to an alteration in their appearance , except two , a perpendicular line and a horizontal one ; and lines are more or less ...
... various objects subject to those laws which regulate their appearance in Nature . " LINES . All lines are subject to an alteration in their appearance , except two , a perpendicular line and a horizontal one ; and lines are more or less ...
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... and , though true according to rule , appear false with regard to their effect upon the eye of the B Imaginary lines reaching from various objects to the eye . spectator . This is termed violent or sudden perspective , 6 AN ESSAY ON THE V.
... and , though true according to rule , appear false with regard to their effect upon the eye of the B Imaginary lines reaching from various objects to the eye . spectator . This is termed violent or sudden perspective , 6 AN ESSAY ON THE V.
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... various points is found to agree perfectly with the natural representation of objects . CIRCLES . If any one takes a drinking glass or cup in his hand , with the mouth of it toward him , and gradually turns it from him , carefully ...
... various points is found to agree perfectly with the natural representation of objects . CIRCLES . If any one takes a drinking glass or cup in his hand , with the mouth of it toward him , and gradually turns it from him , carefully ...
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... various causes oper- ating upon lines so as to change their appearance to the eye , let him look abroad upon natural objects , and contemplate the various changes produced in their forms by their situation , so that his eye may become ...
... various causes oper- ating upon lines so as to change their appearance to the eye , let him look abroad upon natural objects , and contemplate the various changes produced in their forms by their situation , so that his eye may become ...
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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...