| Ariadne Florentina Contributor(s): Ruskin, John (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798675566204 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $11.69 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2020 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Techniques - Painting - Crafts & Hobbies | Carving - History |
| Dewey: 736 |
| Physical Information: 0.34" H x 6" W x 9" (0.5 lbs) 148 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Book ExcerptA. All engraving must be cut work;--that is its differentia. Unless your effect be produced by cutting into some solid substance, it is not engraving at all.B. The proper methods for light-and-shade drawing vary according to subject, and the degree of completeness desired, --some of them having much in common with engraving, and others with painting.C. The qualities of a light-and-shade drawing ought to be entirely different from those of a painting. It is not a deficient or partial representation of a colored scene or picture, but an entirely different reading of either. So that much of what is intelligible in a painting ought to be unintelligible in a light-and-shade study, and vice vers .You have thus three arts, --engraving, light-and-shade drawing, and painting.Now I am not going to lecture, in this course, on painting, nor on light-and-shade drawing, but on engraving only. But I must tell you something about light-and-shade drawing first; |