Beauty of form and grace of vesture . Fig. 64. Fig. 65. manner. She has freedom and ease, thereforemore or less of grace. She has only lost thereputation of being in the mode. Those who have had the privilege of a consid-erable sojourn in Japan, return with a most re- 10 146 BEAUTY OF FORM. spectful opinion of Japanese girls and women,finding their dress graceful, charming, and elegant,and disliking only their arrangement of the lover of art but rejoices at their rumoured. Fig. 66. Fig. 67. rejection of French fashions, nor is there one whodoes not deplore the coming of the time whenth
Beauty of form and grace of vesture . Fig. 64. Fig. 65. manner. She has freedom and ease, thereforemore or less of grace. She has only lost thereputation of being in the mode. Those who have had the privilege of a consid-erable sojourn in Japan, return with a most re- 10 146 BEAUTY OF FORM. spectful opinion of Japanese girls and women,finding their dress graceful, charming, and elegant,and disliking only their arrangement of the lover of art but rejoices at their rumoured. Fig. 66. Fig. 67. rejection of French fashions, nor is there one whodoes not deplore the coming of the time whenthe influence of so-called civilized nations shallmodify the originality and picturesqucness of theirnational costume. BEAUTY OF FORM. I47 In any search for beauty, changeable conditionsand differing personahties must be regarded, torecognize or to secure appropriateness. Whenone has entered upon the study of the relationsof line and form, colour and complexion, textureand occasion, it will be easily recognized that noabsolute rules, no directions for indiscriminateadoption, can be given. All suggestions of helpmust necessarily be hampered by exceptions andconditions. One student wrote: My first suc-cess has been so much admired and imitated thatI realize how much harm can be done, if only alittle talking is left to influence others. It is sodifficult to make ones friends appreciate the factthat each person needs a different treatment. CHAPTER IX. ART PRINCIPLES APPLIED TO C
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