. Free-hand drawing : a manual for teachers and students. better to have simple backgrounds, to concentrate the objectsand keep them one side of the centre, than to cover the backgroundequally by the objects. An odd number of objects is better thanan even, and they should be arranged so that there shall be oneprincipal high light and at least two secondary lights in the effect of light and dark must be simple and produced bymasses of light in contrast with masses of dark. Groups shouldbe arranged so that the foregrounds appear lighter than the back-grounds. Burnet divides composition
. Free-hand drawing : a manual for teachers and students. better to have simple backgrounds, to concentrate the objectsand keep them one side of the centre, than to cover the backgroundequally by the objects. An odd number of objects is better thanan even, and they should be arranged so that there shall be oneprincipal high light and at least two secondary lights in the effect of light and dark must be simple and produced bymasses of light in contrast with masses of dark. Groups shouldbe arranged so that the foregrounds appear lighter than the back-grounds. Burnet divides composition into two classes, angular and angular, the objects are arranged so that the important lines forma mass whose general shape is triangular. In circular, the impor-tant lines are circular or elliptical. A subject should always be com-posed so as to come under one class or the other. The angularform is the most simple for groups of still life, and is usuallyadopted for these subjects. The illustrations show the triangularform. COMPOSITION. 129. The following extracts from Sir Joshua Reynolds Discourses aregiven on account of their special value in connection with the subjectof this book and chapter : Discourse V. There is another caution which I wish to give you. Be as select inthose whom you endeavor to please, as in those whom you endeavor to imi-tate. Without the love of fame, you can never do anything excellent; butby an excessive and undistinguishing thirst after it, you will come to havevulgar views ; you will degrade your style ; and your taste will be entirelycorrupted. It is certain that the lowest style will be the most popular, as itfalls within the compass of ignorance itself; and the vulgar will always bepleased with what is natural, in the confined and misunderstood sense ofthe word. Discourse VII. Whoever would reform a nation, supposing a bad taste to prevail in it,will not accomplish his purpose by going directly against the stream of theirprejudices.
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