. Painting, sculpture, and architecture as representative arts : an essay in comparative aesthetics. and Architecture,will be shown to be the principles of proportion. For thisreason, when, as is probable, ninetenths of all Americans tell usthat they consider these faces,more beautiful than any con-forming to the Greek type, theymay be justified. According tothe laws of form, properly in-terpreted, such faces fulfil theprinciples of proportion. But,besides this, according to thelaws of significance, as derivedfrom our association with facesof the ordinary American type,from our deductions with
. Painting, sculpture, and architecture as representative arts : an essay in comparative aesthetics. and Architecture,will be shown to be the principles of proportion. For thisreason, when, as is probable, ninetenths of all Americans tell usthat they consider these faces,more beautiful than any con-forming to the Greek type, theymay be justified. According tothe laws of form, properly in-terpreted, such faces fulfil theprinciples of proportion. But,besides this, according to thelaws of significance, as derivedfrom our association with facesof the ordinary American type,from our deductions with ref-erence to the characteristicsmanifested by them, and from our sympathy with thepersons possessing such characteristics, it is perfectly inaccordance with aesthetic principles (see Chapter XIII. ofArt in Theory ) to say that, while as beautiful in formas are the Greek faces, their beauty, to one of the raceand country to which they belong, is enhanced on accountof its significance. Nor, even when forms do not fulfil, as these presum-ably do, the germinal principles of proportion, must it be. FIQ. 53.—FACIAL page loi. I02 PAINTING, SCULPTURE, AND ARCHITECTURE.
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