. Painting, sculpture, and architecture as representative arts : an essay in comparative aesthetics. lylength but joints. Expression bymeans of joints always necessitatesangles. But these, when slight, donot appear to be angles so much ascurves. Joints, therefore, furnishthat which enables the body, in con-nection with straight lines, to mani-fest both curves and angles, and thusto combine both instinctive and re-flective expression. But when theseare combined, wc might infer, forreasons given on page 11, that weshould have emotive expression. Aglance at mens actual movementswill confirm by fa
. Painting, sculpture, and architecture as representative arts : an essay in comparative aesthetics. lylength but joints. Expression bymeans of joints always necessitatesangles. But these, when slight, donot appear to be angles so much ascurves. Joints, therefore, furnishthat which enables the body, in con-nection with straight lines, to mani-fest both curves and angles, and thusto combine both instinctive and re-flective expression. But when theseare combined, wc might infer, forreasons given on page 11, that weshould have emotive expression. Aglance at mens actual movementswill confirm by facts the accuracyof this inference. With a littleemotion, instinctive rather than reflective in its source,the angles of the arms and hands, as indeed of the wholebody, are so slight that all seem to be curves (see Fig. 20,page 48, also Fig. 34, page 71). With a little emotion,mainly of a reflective kind, the arms hang straight atthe sides, or are so disposed as to have an effect ofstraightness in connection with curves (see Fig. 79, alsdFigs. 75 and jd, page 134). With much emotion, ^\•llethc^. FIQ. MOVEMENTS. See pages 130, 135, 142. REPRKSEA7\ATION THKOCGII POSTURES. 137 its source be instinctive or reflecti\e, c\er\- movementbecomes more or less angular as well as curved (see , page 132, and 39, page 79). It need scarcely be pointedout now that to associate the expression of the instinc-tive, the reflective, and theemotive, respectively, withthe curve, the straight linein connection with theangular, and the combi-nation of all, is to reach aresult in exact conformitywith the principles statedon page 61. We shall not have donewith this part of our sub-ject, however, till it hasbeen shown what phase ofactivity in the movementsinvolves a representationof that emotive condition,which, on page 113, wassaid to be moral in charac- _^ter. Of course it must be ^^3a phase in which physical f^^-tendencies seem to be sub- ^ordinated to mental. Weha\c found that the f
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