. Painting, sculpture, and architecture as representative arts : an essay in comparative aesthetics. e 340, and , page 342. Observe, too, the house from easternRussia, Fig. 175, page 325. How much more interestingand beautiful this is than would have been possible for abuilding of its class, had the logs of which it is con-structed been covered by clapboards instead of being leftexposed ! In accordance with this principle, any arrangementsthat reinforce the blankness of a wall, and, at the sametime, do this in a way to render apparent a real methodof construction, increase the represent
. Painting, sculpture, and architecture as representative arts : an essay in comparative aesthetics. e 340, and , page 342. Observe, too, the house from easternRussia, Fig. 175, page 325. How much more interestingand beautiful this is than would have been possible for abuilding of its class, had the logs of which it is con-structed been covered by clapboards instead of being leftexposed ! In accordance with this principle, any arrangementsthat reinforce the blankness of a wall, and, at the sametime, do this in a way to render apparent a real methodof construction, increase the representative and thereforeartistic effects. Sometimes these effects are produced bypillars as in Fig. 14, page 36; sometimes by buttresses,as in Fig. 41, page 81 ; sometimes by string-courses, asin Figs. 202, page 363, and 207 page 370 ; sometimes byother jutting masonry, as in Fig. 25, page 53 ; andsometimes by a combination of all these methods as in 324 PAINTING, SCUirTURE, AND ARCHITECTURE. Fig. 198, page 351. When, however, as in the pilastersin Fig. 176, there is too great an exaggeration of that. FIG. 174.—HOUSES AT MORLAIX, page 323. which is necessary for support, there is danger that theform will appear emphasized at the expense of the con-
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