. A child's guide to pictures . e. t ■:tfr . ^vlii. (V a o T5 Greometrlc Composition shape is interrupted by the two figures, seated oneon each side. The circle seems to pass behind thesetill it merges with the clouds below. Both the smalland the large circles repeat the outside curves of thelunette. On the other hand the curve of the clouds,and the figures seated upon them form a contrastingcurve, and there is another one higher up, formedby the two groups of floating angels. In the center,above the larger circle, is a figure with a nimbusthat points up, carrying our eye toward an imagi-
. A child's guide to pictures . e. t ■:tfr . ^vlii. (V a o T5 Greometrlc Composition shape is interrupted by the two figures, seated oneon each side. The circle seems to pass behind thesetill it merges with the clouds below. Both the smalland the large circles repeat the outside curves of thelunette. On the other hand the curve of the clouds,and the figures seated upon them form a contrastingcurve, and there is another one higher up, formedby the two groups of floating angels. In the center,above the larger circle, is a figure with a nimbusthat points up, carrying our eye toward an imagi-nary center, somewhere outside the picture, fromwhich start the radiating lines. So the impressionof that part of the picture that we have been exam-ining is of uplift. By successive steps the eye and,through it, the imagination, are invited to mount now for the part below the small circle, sepa-rated from what is above by an open space of clearblue sky. Do you notice that the band of figuresstretching across this part takes the form of a curve,
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