. Painting, sculpture, and architecture as representative arts : an essay in comparative aesthetics. he gesture, therefore of inquiry,persuasion, and appeal (Fig. 96, page 159). They shouldbe put to death, uttered with theclosing gesture, means: This is myopinion, and I hold it irrespective ofanything that you may think aboutit. The same words, uttered with theopening gesture, mean : This is myopinion ; do you not, should you not,in view of all the arguments that I haveused, agree with me ? Derived fromthis expressional use of the openinggesture, is a secondary descriptive useof it, causing it
. Painting, sculpture, and architecture as representative arts : an essay in comparative aesthetics. he gesture, therefore of inquiry,persuasion, and appeal (Fig. 96, page 159). They shouldbe put to death, uttered with theclosing gesture, means: This is myopinion, and I hold it irrespective ofanything that you may think aboutit. The same words, uttered with theopening gesture, mean : This is myopinion ; do you not, should you not,in view of all the arguments that I haveused, agree with me ? Derived fromthis expressional use of the openinggesture, is a secondary descriptive useof it, causing it to refer to anything ofa doubtful, indefinite nature, which itis an open question for others to thinkof as they choose. It would be used in mentioninga smiling country, or a sunny landscape (, page 159). In conceiving of these, the speakerdoes not have in mind, nor does he wish the hearerto have in mind, any fixed or definite object. Im-agination can fill in the outlines as it chooses, andthe gesture indicates this fact. So liberty, prog-ress, and blessedness receive the high opening ges-. FIQ. 98.—UPWARDOPENING pages 151, 161. REPRESEXTATIO\ TIIKOLCll GESTURES. l6l ture, partly because they are al\va\s welcome, yet partly,too, because the results of them ma}- manifest any one ofa thousand different effects, which the mind of the listeneris left free to conjure according to his fancy (Fig. 98,page 160; see also Fig. 82, page 143). The benediction afterreligious services in church, as given with the closing ges-tures, corresponding to the position in Fig. 71, page 132,is ritualistic. It imparts constraining grace. As givenwith the opening gesture, corresponding to the positionin Fig. 98, page 160, it is evangelical. It solicits inspiringgrace. So the hand of the woman accepting the offer ofmarriage in Fig. 27, page 61, not only indicates embarrass-ment, as said on page 61. It also imparts, without in-tention, the information that she is the one who will noty
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