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Ariadne Florentina

Ariadne Florentina

Ruskin, John

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CarvingGeneral World HistoryPainting Instruction

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ISBN13: 9798709881334
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 20 2021
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.32 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.02
Language: English
Book Excerpt: A. All engraving must be cut work;--that is its differentia. Unless your effect be produced by cutting into some solid substance, it is not engraving at all.B. The proper methods for light-and-shade drawing vary according to subject, and the degree of completeness desired, --some of them having much in common with engraving, and others with painting.C. The qualities of a light-and-shade drawing ought to be entirely different from those of a painting. It is not a deficient or partial representation of a colored scene or picture, but an entirely different reading of either. So that much of what is intelligible in a painting ought to be unintelligible in a light-and-shade study, and vice versâ.You have thus three arts, --engraving, light-and-shade drawing, and painting.Now I am not going to lecture, in this course, on painting, nor on light-and-shade drawing, but on engraving only. But I must tell you something about light-and-shade drawing first;Read More

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