The Drawing Guide: A Manual of Instruction in Industrial Drawing, Designed to Accompany the Industrial Drawing Series : With an Introductory Article on the Principles and Practice of Ornamental Art

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Harper & Brothers, 1881 - 192 頁

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第 19 頁 - PROPOSITION 10. Harmony of form consists in the proper balancing, and contrast of, the straight, the inclined, and the curved.
第 33 頁 - Christianity into the islands. The chief peculiarities of Celtic ornament consist, first, in the entire absence of foliage or other vegetable ornament ; and, secondly, in the extreme intricacy and excessive minuteness and elaboration of the various patterns, mostly geometrical, consisting of interlaced ribbon-work ; diagonal, straight, or spiral lines ; and strange, monstrous animals or birds, with their tail-feathers, top-knots, and tongues extended into long interlacing ribbons, which were intertwined...
第 67 頁 - Circle is a plane figure bounded by one uniformly curved line, bed (Fig. 16), called the circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the centre, as a.
第 21 頁 - Flowers or other natural objects should not be used as ornaments, but conventional representations founded upon them sufficiently suggestive to convey the intended image to the mind, without destroying the unity of the object they are employed to decorate.
第 31 頁 - It has been said by a competent judge that "Every principle which we can derive from the study of the ornamental art of any other people is not only ever present here, but was by the Moors more universally and truly obeyed.
第 32 頁 - Wo to them who dwell in a house not built according to the proportions of symmetry. in building an edifice, therefore, let all its parts, from the basement to the roof, be duly considered.
第 18 頁 - AS IN EVERY PERFECT WORK OF ARCHITECTURE A TRUE PROPORTION WILL BE FOUND TO REIGN BETWEEN ALL THE MEMBERS WHICH COMPOSE IT, SO THROUGHOUT THE DECORATIVE ARTS EVERY ASSEMBLAGE OF FORMS SHOULD BE ARRANGED ON CERTAIN DEFINITE PROPORTIONS : THE JIVHOLE AND EACH PARTICULAR MEMBER SHOULD BE A MULTIPLE OF SOME SIMPLE UNIT.
第 33 頁 - CELTIC ORNAMENT. The Celts — the early inhabitants of the British Isles — had a style of ornamentation peculiarly their own, and singularly at variance with any thing that can be found in any other part of the world. Celtic ornament was doubtless of independent origin, but it every where bears the impress...
第 11 頁 - I never saw so great a proportion of cases in any schools where the pen was so awkwardly held. This excellence must be referred in a great degree to the universal practice of learning to draw, contemporaneously with learning to write. I believe a child will learn both to draw and to write sooner and with more ease, than he will learn writing alone...
第 47 頁 - To measure a parallelogram, or long square. RULE. Multiply the length by the breadth, and the product will be the area, or superficial content.

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