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Title: The art of drawing in its various branches : exemplified in a course of twenty-eight progressive lessons, calculated to afford those who are unacquainted with the art, the means of acquiring a competent knowledge without the aid of a master : being the only work of the kind in which the principles of effect are explained in a clear, methodical, and at the same time familiar style
Year: 1827 (1820s)
Authors: Smith, Thomas, watercolorist Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper, publisher Clowes, William, 1779-1847, printer
Subjects: Drawing Watercolor painting Color
Publisher: London : Printed for Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, Paternoster-Row
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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ualities of objects which can be represented by drawing. * A picture is said to be out of harmony when the contents aretoo powerful and not properly subdued ; it is sometimes, thoughvery rarely, applied to those pictures wherein the sentiments donot tend towards the same end. ^HHHHHHHMHHHhhBS 101 LESSON XXVI.On Contrast. OF FORMS. Whatever, form is different to another is a con-trast to it. Forms are made by lines and by light and shade. An horizontal line is contrasted most strongly by aperpendicular line. A line is contrasted by any other line which is notparallel to it, and which, if continued, would intersectit; thus in fig. 1, the line A B is a contrast to C D,because if continued to E, it would intersect the lineCD. Fig- 1. 102 ON- CONTRAST. A straight line is .intersected by any irregular orcrooked line, as also by any curved line; in fig. 2 thestraight line of the bridge is contrasted by the irre-gular line of the mountains, as well as by the curvedline of the arches. Fig-. 2.
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A straight line is also contrasted by any angle, as infig. 3, where the pyramids form a contrast to the straight-ness of the horizontal line. Fig-. 3.
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