Ernest Govett
Art Principles with Special Reference to Painting
Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4057664579317
Table of Contents
Classification of the fine arts
LAW OF RECOGNITION IN THE ASSOCIATED ARTS
LIMITATIONS OF THE ASSOCIATED ARTS
DEGREES OF BEAUTY IN THE PAINTER'S ART
EXPRESSION. PART II.—CHRISTIAN IDEALS
EXPRESSION. PART III.—CLASSICAL IDEALS
EXPRESSION. PART IV.—GENERAL IDEALS
EXPRESSION. PART V.—PORTRAITURE
EXPRESSION. PART VI—MISCELLANEOUS
ILLUSIONS IN THE PAINTER'S ART
ILLUSION OF SUSPENSION AND MOTION IN THE AIR
INDEX OF SCULPTORS, PAINTERS, AND WORKS OF ART
PREFACE
This book is put forward with much diffidence, for I am well aware of its insufficiencies. My original idea was to produce a work covering all the principles of painting, but after many years spent in considering the various recorded theories relating to æsthetic problems, and in gathering materials to indicate how the accepted principles have been applied, I came to the conclusion that a single life is scarcely long enough for the preparation of an exhaustive treatise on the subject. Nevertheless, I planned a work of much wider scope than the one now presented, but various circumstances, and principally the hindrance to research caused by the war, impelled me to curtail my ambition. Time was fading, and my purpose seemed to be growing very old. I felt that if one has something to say, it is better to say it incompletely than to run the risk of compulsory silence. The book will be found little more than a skeleton, and some of its sections, notably those dealing with illusions