 | Sydney Whiting - 1855 - 458 頁
...and so concisely that they become in his hands axioms and postulates Thus he says : " Harmony of form consists in the proper balancing and contrast of the straight, the inclined, and the curved." Or again: "Composition of curves will be most agreeable where the mechanical means of describing them... | |
 | William Laxton - 1857 - 500 頁
...arts every assemblage of forms should be arranged on certain definite proportions. 10. Harmony of form consists in the proper balancing and contrast of the straight, the inclined, and the curved. 11. In surface decoration all lines should grow out of a parent stem. Every ornament, however distant,... | |
 | Robert Scott Burn - 1857 - 138 頁
...well to bear in mind the following remark by Mr. Owen Jones : " Harmony of form appears to consist in the proper balancing and contrast of the straight, the inclined, and the curved. * * * As in colour, there can be no perfect composition in which either of the three primary colours... | |
 | 1869 - 796 頁
...better." " That which is beautiful is true ; that which is true must be beautiful." " Harmony of form consists in the proper balancing and contrast of the straight, the inclined, and the curved." "Throughout the decorative arts every assemblage of forms should be arranged on certain definite proportions."... | |
 | 1869 - 824 頁
...That which is beautiful is true ; that which is true must be beautiful." " Harmony of form consista in the proper balancing and contrast of the straight, the inclined, and the curved." " Throughout the decorative arts every assemblage of forms should be arranged on certain definite proportions."... | |
 | Art-studies, Frederick Edward Hulme - 1872 - 242 頁
...particular member should be a multiple of some particular unit. "Proposition 10. — Harmony of form consists in the proper balancing and contrast of the straight, the inclined, and the curved." Further on, from the same high authority, we receive as Fig. 38. an axiom—"That there can be no perfect... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1877 - 236 頁
...ORNAMENTAL ART. the most beautiful which the uneducated eye does not readily detect. PROPOSITION IX. — OP HARMONY AND CONTRAST. Where great variety of form...temple the straight, the angular or inclined, and the cm-ved, are in most perfect relation to one another. In the best examples of Gothic architecture every... | |
 | Francis Hodgman, Charles Fitzroy Bellows - 1891 - 512 頁
...without destroying the unity of the object they are employed to decorate." Third— " Harmony of form consists in the proper balancing and contrast of the straight, the inclined and the curved." These are fundamental propositions from one of the highest authorities on decorative design. \Vhile... | |
 | 1893 - 854 頁
...without destroying the unity of the object they are employed to decorate." Third — " Harmony of form consists in the proper balancing and contrast of the straight, the inclined, and the curved." These are fundamental propositions from one of the highest authorities on decorative design. While... | |
 | Albert Frederick Calvert - 1906 - 692 頁
...the surface of the ornaments themselves. To the builders of the Alhambra, harmony of form consisted in the proper balancing and contrast of the straight, the inclined, and the curved. SECTION OF THE COLUMNS AND ARCHES OF GENERAL CONSTRUCTION IN THE PALACE. As in colour, there can be... | |
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PROPOSITION 10. Harmony of form consists in the proper balancing, and contrast of, the straight, the inclined, and the curved. 
