. Painting, sculpture, and architecture as representative arts : an essay in comparative aesthetics. but cause him to makehis instinctive promptings reflective, as in exerting themoral influence of confident assertion. Fig. 28, page 62 ;or enthusiastic persuasion, Fig. 2, page 21, and Fig. 84, page 145. Entangleswill predominate in thedegree in which he isconscious of interfer-ence, as in supposed op-position, whether thisbe mental, as in Fig. 29,page 63 ; and more de-cidedly so, as in Fig. jjpage 135; or material, asin Fig. 30, page 64 ; andFig- 58, page 104; orboth together, as in thetwo fig
. Painting, sculpture, and architecture as representative arts : an essay in comparative aesthetics. but cause him to makehis instinctive promptings reflective, as in exerting themoral influence of confident assertion. Fig. 28, page 62 ;or enthusiastic persuasion, Fig. 2, page 21, and Fig. 84, page 145. Entangleswill predominate in thedegree in which he isconscious of interfer-ence, as in supposed op-position, whether thisbe mental, as in Fig. 29,page 63 ; and more de-cidedly so, as in Fig. jjpage 135; or material, asin Fig. 30, page 64 ; andFig- 58, page 104; orboth together, as in thetwo figures at the frontof Fig. 39, page 79 ; oras in fighting. The lat-ter condition will doubleup his frame and throwhis neck, elbows, knees,and hips into shapesthat will make his formthe best possible repre-sentation of what can bedescribed by only the term angularity ; yet from thisappearance in such cases, curves are never entirely Fig. 31, page 65 ; also Figs. 73 and 74, page 132. So much for the meaning of outlines, whether sketchedby the hand or assumed by the body. Now let us notice. FIQ. 28.—THE APOLLO pages 62, 138, 147, 149, 151, 224, 2S1. GRADATION IN THE OUTLINES OF SHAPES. 63 how. as manifested not in the human form but in the inani-mate appearances of nature surrounding it, similar outHnesare fitted to represent, and so to awaken, correspondingconceptions in the mind of the spectator. The curve hasbeen ascribed to the instinctive, or, as we may term it,the physically normal action of the human form. Is thereany truth in the supposition that similar appearances ex-ternal to man may be ascribed to sources similar in charac-
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