. Painting, sculpture, and architecture as representative arts : an essay in comparative aesthetics. effect ofwhich we chiefly think. With the thought of the physical effect comes, too, a suggestionof an instinctive action of themind ; and with the mentaleffect a suggestion of a re-flective action. Thus hugestones in a doorway, or hugepillarsin a porch having heavymasonry above them, are soevidently necessary in orderto afford the needed physi-cal su^port, that it seems as ifthe builder must have chosenthem instiiictivcly rather thanreflectively. But the lightsteel rods and bars in suspen-sion
. Painting, sculpture, and architecture as representative arts : an essay in comparative aesthetics. effect ofwhich we chiefly think. With the thought of the physical effect comes, too, a suggestionof an instinctive action of themind ; and with the mentaleffect a suggestion of a re-flective action. Thus hugestones in a doorway, or hugepillarsin a porch having heavymasonry above them, are soevidently necessary in orderto afford the needed physi-cal su^port, that it seems as ifthe builder must have chosenthem instiiictivcly rather thanreflectively. But the lightsteel rods and bars in suspen-sion or cantilever bridges areso evidently indicative of theresults of experiment andcontrivance, that we cannotavoid the impression thatthey were determined uponas the result of , however, the heavySee pages 21, 24, 26, 281. doorway or column may be so carefully carved, so minutely divided by outlines into allsorts of details of shape, that it suggests not only thephysical but also the mental, not onh the instinctive butalso the reflective ; antl it is then that, in accordance with. FIG. HERCULES BY QLYCONTHE ATHENIAN. CORKESPONDENCES BETWEEN THE EACTOKS. 21 what was said on page 11, we have that cmoihc manifes-tation universally attributed to that artistic developmentof the technicalities of building which we term architec-ture. Or consider another example. The human form,on account of the obvious blending in it of the physicaland the mental, the instinc- Wtive and the reflective, al-ways conveys (see page 11again) some impression ofemotive effects. Yet ob-serve how much more thepurely physical effect pre-dominates in the bulkylimbs of the Hercules, , page 20, than it does inthe slender limbs of theFlying Mercury, Fig. 2,page 21. Is it not true,too, that the very shape ofthe former suggests lesscapacity for mental actionthan docs that of the latter,whose whole appearancepaintingsculptur00raym
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