The Academic And Conventional
The terms Academic and Conventional are much used in criticism and greatly feared by the criticised, often without either party appearing to have much idea of what is meant. New so-called schools of painting seem to arrive annually with the spring fashions, and sooner or later the one of last year gets called out of date, if not conventional and academic. And as students, for fear of having their work called by one or other of these dread terms, are inclined to rush into any new extravagance...
Showing Where Squarenesses May Be Looked For In The Drawing On The Opposite Page
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Drawing
The lines of shading following a convenient parallel direction unless prominent forms demand otherwise. In this method the lines of shading not being much varied in direction or curved at all, a minimum amount of that form stimulus is conveyed. The curving of the lines in shading adds considerably to the force of the relief, and suggests much stronger modelling. In the case of foreshortened effects, where the forms are seen at their fullest, arching one over the other, some curvature in the...
Egg And Dart Moulding From One Of The Caryatides From The Erechtheum In The
The line of a profile is often one of great beauty, only here the variety1i4s01apt to overbalance the unity or run of the line. The most beautiful profiles are usually those in which variety is subordinated to the unity of the contour. I fancy the Greeks felt this when they did away with the hollow above the nose, making the line of the forehead run, with but little interruption, to the tip of the nose. The unity of line is increased, and the variety made more interesting. The idea that this...
Love And Death By Gf Watts
A noble composition, founded on the power of the right angle in the figure of Death, in contrast with the curved lines in the figure of In the diagram accompanying the reproduction of this picture I have tried to indicate in diagrammatical form some of the chief lines of its anatomy. In these diagrams of the anatomy of compositions the lines selected are not always very obvious in the originals and are justly much broken into by truths of natural appearance. But an emotional significance...
Indicating The Sympathetic Flow Of Lines That Give Unity To This Composition
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Illustrating The Flow Of Lines On Which The Rhythmic Unity Of This Picture
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