A Theory of Fine ArtScribner, Armstrong,, 1874 - 290 páginas |
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... Color ; Perspective ; Lights and Shades ; the Line . — Effects to be produced by Colors , through Harmony of Combination , and Local Tints . - Color as a means of Expression . — Peculiar Ad- vantages of Painting as an Art . Wide Range ...
... Color ; Perspective ; Lights and Shades ; the Line . — Effects to be produced by Colors , through Harmony of Combination , and Local Tints . - Color as a means of Expression . — Peculiar Ad- vantages of Painting as an Art . Wide Range ...
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... color , and with graceful instead of coarse form ; and by long acquaintance with the best things , to discern ... colors of marble , or find it pleasant to the foot , as because such porches and floors are costly , and separated in all ...
... color , and with graceful instead of coarse form ; and by long acquaintance with the best things , to discern ... colors of marble , or find it pleasant to the foot , as because such porches and floors are costly , and separated in all ...
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... . In works of art , particular forms are the signs of dexterity , of taste , of convenience , of util- ity . In the works of nature , particular sounds and colors , etc. , are the signs of peace , 36 A THEORY OF ART .
... . In works of art , particular forms are the signs of dexterity , of taste , of convenience , of util- ity . In the works of nature , particular sounds and colors , etc. , are the signs of peace , 36 A THEORY OF ART .
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Joseph Torrey. colors , etc. , are the signs of peace , or danger , or plenty , or desolation . In such cases , the constant connection we discover between the sign and the thing signified , between the material quality and the quality ...
Joseph Torrey. colors , etc. , are the signs of peace , or danger , or plenty , or desolation . In such cases , the constant connection we discover between the sign and the thing signified , between the material quality and the quality ...
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... color , in which we are not conscious of the several vibrations or undulations of which it is . composed , would it also be denied , as the defini- tion requires it should be , that such sound or color possesses in any degree whatever ...
... color , in which we are not conscious of the several vibrations or undulations of which it is . composed , would it also be denied , as the defini- tion requires it should be , that such sound or color possesses in any degree whatever ...
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actual æsthetic agreeable ancient architecture artist awaken Baldassare Castiglione beautiful belongs breadth called capable character characteristic Charles Bell Cicero color common complacency conception considered constitutes contemplating cultivation dimensions distinguished effect emotions equipoise Essay essence essential excitement expression fact faculty feel fine arts form of sense freedom genius Greece harmony Hence highest human mind idea ideal images imagination imitation individual infinite harmony intellectual interest judg judgment of taste kind Laocoön less Lord Bacon Manasseh Cutler material matter means ment mode modern moral nature never object original outward painter painting particular passions perception perfect plastic arts pleasure poet poetry possess present principle produce proportion pure purpose realization relation represented rience rules says sculpture seems sensuous simply sion Sir Francis Burdett soul spirit style sublime symbols theory thing thought tiful tion true truth ture uncon understanding unity universal whole wholly
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Página 212 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain. Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and wat'ry depths; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason!
Página 106 - ... in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry. Tell me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing! Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the ./Eolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing accident; or do these workings argue something within us above the trodden clod...
Página 129 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves ; And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him, When he comes back...
Página 252 - The Poet writes under one restriction only, namely, the necessity of giving immediate pleasure to a human Being possessed of that information which may be expected from him, not as a lawyer, a physician, a mariner, an astronomer, or a natural philosopher, but as a Man.
Página 7 - It is a metaphor, taken from a passive sense of the human body, and transferred to things which are in their essence not passive, — to intellectual acts and operations.
Página 254 - The objects of the Poet's thoughts are everywhere; though the eyes and senses of man are, it is true, his favourite guides, yet he will follow wheresoever he can find an atmosphere of sensation in which to move his wings.
Página 106 - I have some favourite flowers in spring, among which are the mountain-daisy, the hare-bell, the fox-glove, the wild brier-rose, the budding birch, and the hoary hawthorn, that I view and hang over with particular delight.
Página 125 - Neither let it be deemed too saucy a comparison to balance the highest point of man's wit with the efficacy of Nature ; but rather give right honour to the heavenly Maker of that maker, who, having made man to His own likeness, set him beyond and over all the works of that second nature : which in nothing he showeth so much as in Poetry, when with the force of a divine breath He bringeth things forth far surpassing her doings...
Página 171 - Each cast at the other, as when two black clouds, With heaven's artillery fraught, come rattling on Over the Caspian...
Página 240 - That tall Man, a giant in bulk and in height, Not an inch of his body is free from delight ; Can he keep himself still, if he would ? oh, not he ! The music stirs in him like wind through a tree.