Category: Art
BETWEEN those works on Art which are too costly, or too old to be useful now,--those, which are too comprehensive or prolix--and those, which teach nothing,--it was suggested to the Author, that an investigation and simple arrangement of the Principles on which he has hitherto...
A single mass of light will have the greatest force when brought in immediate contact with a dark background: so will a dark object tell with equal power when opposed to the str...
6. Part 6Polished surfaces, as in plate or armour, do not show their real colours. The reflected colours of the sun or air that shines on them confuse their own. Rough surfaces, on the c...
5. Part 5Nature, the best source we can go to for instruction, is '_always at hand_!'--'but Nature herself is not to be too closely copied. There are excellencies in the art of painting...
7. Part 7There is no mechanism in painting; for those, who by a clever handling, possess this quality to the greatest perfection, are rarely found to excel in the higher realities of art.
2. Part 2The most powerful impressions are produced by the simplest construction. The chief interest confined to a very small portion of the work, and the larger space left in so much re...
1. Part 1BETWEEN those works on Art which are too costly, or too old to be useful now,--those, which are too comprehensive or prolix--and those, which teach nothing,--it was suggested to...
4. Part 4Warm and cold colours, with their gradations and contrasts, lights and shadows with theirs, agreeing with and opposing each other, all struggling together (but that struggle _un...
8. Part 8_Plate 11._--MILLS ON A SEA COAST.--The large and varied portion of shadow, principally thrown into the wild uproar of the scudding clouds, is gathered together, and focussed by...