Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye |
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... painting by showing in detail how the colors , masses , and directions balance each other , the layman should be expected to assume that , for reasons of their own , artists have expanded the game of the housemaid into a tricky trade ...
... painting by showing in detail how the colors , masses , and directions balance each other , the layman should be expected to assume that , for reasons of their own , artists have expanded the game of the housemaid into a tricky trade ...
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... painting and sculpture are the prod- ucts of a gradual — but probably not final emancipation . My assertion that works of art must offer a " complete " image of the world applies to such isolated works . But paintings and statues can ...
... painting and sculpture are the prod- ucts of a gradual — but probably not final emancipation . My assertion that works of art must offer a " complete " image of the world applies to such isolated works . But paintings and statues can ...
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... painting just as is the union of man and woman to beget mankind , but design must maintain its preponderance over color . Otherwise painting speeds to its ruin : it will fall through color just as mankind fell through Eve . " Reactions ...
... painting just as is the union of man and woman to beget mankind , but design must maintain its preponderance over color . Otherwise painting speeds to its ruin : it will fall through color just as mankind fell through Eve . " Reactions ...
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