 Nature upon close examination will be found to have their blemishes and defects. The most beautiful forms have something about them like weakness, minuteness, or imperfection. But it is not every eye that perceives these blemishes. It must be an eye long...  The Decorator's assistant - Página 143Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Meyer Howard Abrams - 1971 - 420 páginas
...beauty are not to be sought in the heavens, but upon the earth.' The only procedure for finding it is 'a long habit of observing what any set of objects of the same kind have in common,' which will result ha 'an abstract idea of their forms more perfect than any one original. . .'** Emphasis... | |
 | Edward Alexander - 1973 - 336 páginas
...recognizable as a deformity. The practical method for discovering the ideal to be imitated is to observe what any set of objects of the same kind have in common, to eliminate accidental deficiencies, excrescences, and deformities from their general figures, and... | |
 | George J. Leonard - 1995 - 269 páginas
..."what a set of objects of the same kind have in common," to gain a new power: the "power" of noticing "what each wants in particular." This "long laborious comparison should be the first study of the painter. ..." At the risk of getting ahead of the story, anyone who knows Wordsworth and... | |
 | George E. Marcus, Fred R. Myers - 1995 - 396 páginas
...imperfections. But it is not every eye that perceives these blemishes. It must be any eye long used to the contemplation and comparison of these forms; and...power of discerning what each wants in particular. (Reynolds [1769] 1981:44) It is this discerning eye which the student of makeup learns to acquire.... | |
 | Inga Bryden - 1998 - 312 páginas
...imperfection. But it is not every eye that perceives these blemishes. It must be an eye long used to the comparison of these forms; and which, by a long habit...This long laborious comparison should be the first study of the painter who aims at the great style. By this means he acquires a just idea of beautiful... | |
 | Charles A. Cramer - 2006 - 196 páginas
...imperfection. But it is not every eye that perceives these blemishes. It must be an eye long used to the contemplation and comparison of these forms; and...This long laborious comparison should be the first study of the painter, who aims at the greatest style. By this means, he acquires a just idea of beautiful... | |
 | 1839 - 348 páginas
...imperfection. But it is not every eye that perceives these blemishes. It must be an eye long used to the contemplation and comparison of these forms; and...habit of observing what any set of objects of the game kind have in common, has acquired the power of -discerning what each wants in particular. This... | |
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