Pictorial composition and the critical judgment of pictures; a handbook for students and lovers of art . within the circuit or be the most im-portant item of the circle. It should never beoutside the circle. If it appears there, the eye isthrown off of the elliptical track. If the readerwill compare the Lake at Ville dAvray^byCorot with his Orpheus and Eurydice, thecharm in the former may reveal itself more com-pletely through the jar to which the latter sub-jects us. The figures of the divine lyrist and hisbride escaping out of one corner of the canvas donot enter at all into the linear schem
Pictorial composition and the critical judgment of pictures; a handbook for students and lovers of art . within the circuit or be the most im-portant item of the circle. It should never beoutside the circle. If it appears there, the eye isthrown off of the elliptical track. If the readerwill compare the Lake at Ville dAvray^byCorot with his Orpheus and Eurydice, thecharm in the former may reveal itself more com-pletely through the jar to which the latter sub-jects us. The figures of the divine lyrist and hisbride escaping out of one corner of the canvas donot enter at all into the linear scheme and intheir anxiety to flee Hades they are about toleave art and the spectator. The picture is astrange counterpart of the Apollo and Daphneof Giorgione at Venice, and since it is known ofCorot that he cared infinitely more for naturethan art, it is fair to suppose that he had neverseen this picture either in the original or repro-duction. Had he been governed by the feelingfor unity which his works usually display thispitfall in the borders of plagiarism would nothave snared him. Page 99.[ 104 ]. Orpheus and Eukvuicf.— Corot Figures outside the natural line of the pictures composition
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