The Works of John Ruskin: The elements of drawing. The elements of perspective. Aratra penteliciJ. Wiley, 1889 |
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Page xi
... sight and the only rule which I have , as yet , found to be without excepcion respecting art , is that all great art is delicate . : Therefore , the chief aim and bent of the following sysum is to obtain , first , a perfectly patient ...
... sight and the only rule which I have , as yet , found to be without excepcion respecting art , is that all great art is delicate . : Therefore , the chief aim and bent of the following sysum is to obtain , first , a perfectly patient ...
Page xiv
... sight , and that it corrupts his taste as much as it retards his progress . I will not occupy the reader's time by any discussion of the principle here , but I wish him to note it as the only distinctive one in my system , so far as it ...
... sight , and that it corrupts his taste as much as it retards his progress . I will not occupy the reader's time by any discussion of the principle here , but I wish him to note it as the only distinctive one in my system , so far as it ...
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... sight . For instance ; when grass is lighted strongly by the sun in certain directions , it is turned from green into a peculiar and somewhat dusty- looking yellow . If we had been born blind , and were suddenly endowed with sight on a ...
... sight . For instance ; when grass is lighted strongly by the sun in certain directions , it is turned from green into a peculiar and somewhat dusty- looking yellow . If we had been born blind , and were suddenly endowed with sight on a ...
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... sight . He sees the colours of nature exactly as they are , and therefore perceives at once in the sun . lighted grass the precise relation between the two colours that form its shade and light . To him it does not seem shade and light ...
... sight . He sees the colours of nature exactly as they are , and therefore perceives at once in the sun . lighted grass the precise relation between the two colours that form its shade and light . To him it does not seem shade and light ...
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... sight ; but there are other qualities required in drawing , dependent not merely on lightness , but steadiness of hand ; and the eye , to be perfect in its power , must be made accurate as well as keen , and not only see shrewdly , but ...
... sight ; but there are other qualities required in drawing , dependent not merely on lightness , but steadiness of hand ; and the eye , to be perfect in its power , must be made accurate as well as keen , and not only see shrewdly , but ...
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Page 116 - Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm : for love is strong as death ; jealousy is cruel as the grave : the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame...
Page 153 - ... you will find in practice, that brilliancy of hue, and vigour of light, and even the aspect of transparency in shade, are essentially dependent on this character alone ; hardness, coldness, and opacity resulting far more from equality of colour than from nature of colour.
Page xi - I would rather teach drawing that my pupils may learn to love Nature, than teach the looking at Nature that they may learn to draw.
Page 188 - Now in art every colour has an opponent colour, which, if brought near it, will relieve it more completely than any other ; so, also, every form and line may be made more striking to the eye by an opponent form or line near them ; a curved line is set off by a straight...
Page viii - God, by which the heavens were of old, and the earth, standing out of the water and in the water...
Page 178 - Rivers in this way are just like wise men, who keep one side of their life for play and another for work ; and can be brilliant, and chattering, and transparent when they are at ease, and yet take deep counsel on the other side when they set themselves to the main purpose.
Page 167 - Thus a musician composes an air, by putting notes together in certain relations ; a poet composes a poem, by putting thoughts and words in pleasant order ; and a painter a picture, by putting thoughts, forms, and colours in pleasant order. In all these cases, observe, an intended unity must be the result of composition. A paviour cannot be said to compose the heap of stones which he empties from his cart, nor the sower the handful of seed which he scatters from his hand. It is the essence of composition...