. Painting, sculpture, and architecture as representative arts : an essay in comparative aesthetics. ject of contemp-lation. This action, in accordancewith what was said on page 129, ismental and reflective. If, when it ismade, the eyes gaze forward, then,in case the chin be in ad\-ance, merementality is subordinated to physicalconsiderations (see Fig. 27, page 61),sometimes merely because abstractthought is waived in view of thatwhich, on the physical plane, for thetime being, excites interest (Figs. loi, page 169, also ill,page 176), surprises or puzzles (Fig. 112, page 176), or, if the coun
. Painting, sculpture, and architecture as representative arts : an essay in comparative aesthetics. ject of contemp-lation. This action, in accordancewith what was said on page 129, ismental and reflective. If, when it ismade, the eyes gaze forward, then,in case the chin be in ad\-ance, merementality is subordinated to physicalconsiderations (see Fig. 27, page 61),sometimes merely because abstractthought is waived in view of thatwhich, on the physical plane, for thetime being, excites interest (Figs. loi, page 169, also ill,page 176), surprises or puzzles (Fig. 112, page 176), or, if the countenance be distorted,horrifies (Fig. 113, page 176),or arouses to intensified rage(Fig. 122, page 181). Becauseof the reflection suggested inthis last face, however, the men-ace given is less forcible thanwhen the head is thrust for-ward as in Fig. ji^, page to what has been saidbefore, the leaning of the headto one side, in connection withthis same movement, introducesa stronger suggestion of the presence of persons in con-nection with the presentation of the subject that is being. FIQ. 110.—RELIGIOUS RAPTURE, Seepages 174, 175, 179. IyG PAINTING, .SCULPTVKE, AND ARCHITECTURE. considered. When the chin points in the same directionas the eye, or what is the same thing, when the foreheadleans away from the person toward whom one is looking,this indicates that thought is with-held from accord with that of thisperson on account, perhaps, of pride,as in Fig. 114, page 177, or of shghtsuspicion. Fig. iii, page 176, or ofstubbornness, as in Fig. 112, page176, or of more malevolent feelings,as in Figs. 50, page 99, and 122,page 181. If with the head held backand the eyes gazing forward, thebrow be in advance, there is moreemphatic evidence of the influence ofthought. Nor does the man conceive either of himselfor of the opinion which he happens at the time to hold,as subordinate to any other, although, in the degree in
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