. Painting, sculpture, and architecture as representative arts : an essay in comparative aesthetics. FIQ. 46—FIQUKE BY LINES. See pages 90, 97, 9^. the form that is fitted to make the strongest appeal to ourcombined instinctive and reflective, in other words, to ouremotive nature. It seems necessary in this place, therefore, to say some-thing about the representative possibilities of the humanform ; and of this, first, as determined by the blending in REGLLAKITY IX OUTLINES. 97. it of regularity and irregularity. This latter, as we know,when it exists b} itself alone, with nothing to
. Painting, sculpture, and architecture as representative arts : an essay in comparative aesthetics. FIQ. 46—FIQUKE BY LINES. See pages 90, 97, 9^. the form that is fitted to make the strongest appeal to ourcombined instinctive and reflective, in other words, to ouremotive nature. It seems necessary in this place, therefore, to say some-thing about the representative possibilities of the humanform ; and of this, first, as determined by the blending in REGLLAKITY IX OUTLINES. 97. it of regularity and irregularity. This latter, as we know,when it exists b} itself alone, with nothing to counteractit, is confusing and therefore disagree-able ; and the mind associates uglinesswith it rather than beauty. How ugli-ness can be avoided, by introducingregularity in spite of irregularity, is abroad and complex question ; butenough can be said of it here to indi-cate the principle involved. Recallingthat by regularit} in a figure, is meantits capability of beino; divided bv paral- FIG. 47—FRONT FACE ^ _ -^ ^ ^ DIVIDED BY LINES. Icl, horizontal, or vertical lines into likeSee pages90,97,98, loi. space-measurements, or, else, by the out-lines of circles, ovals, squares, rectangles,or rhomboids, into like shape-measurements, let us examineFigs. 46, 47, 48, and 49, all of them produced by drawinglines through or about figures found in Putnams Hand-book of , first, that theframework occupiedby the form in , page 96, and bythe faces in Figs. 47and 48, pag
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