| 1824 - 436 pages
...pictorial excellence hinges HS many pleasing objects, the combination of which render a piece perfect, ore frequently passed over by an observer because the whole of the composition is not under the Influ cnce of a suitable effect. Thus, a cottage or ai :.:. . i scene requires a soft and simple admixture... | |
| William Hall - 1881 - 300 pages
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| William Hall - 1881 - 306 pages
...one more accustomed to literary composition : — The principal art of landscape painting consists in conveying to the mind the most forcible effect which...Thus a cottage or a village scene requires a soft or a simple admixture of tones, calculated to produce pleasure without astonishment. On the contrary,... | |
| David Cox - 1922 - 190 pages
...principle on which pictorial excellence hinges ; as many pleasing objects, the combination of which renders a piece perfect, are frequently passed over by an...calculated to produce pleasure without astonishment ; awakening all the delightful sensations of the bosom, without trenching on the nobler provinces of... | |
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