The Science of Aesthetics Or the Nature Kinds Laws And Uses of Beauty
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All such attempts overlook the consideration that the highest criterion of beauty being perfect expression of idea according as the ideal in sculpture is energy and force, or ten- derness and grace, the proportions must vary. Hercules cannot be truly represented with the same proportions as Jupiter, as muscular force implies a broader frame than intellectual power ; Apollo, as the impersonation of muscular grace, must in like manner differ from Venus as the type of feminine beauty. 230. The dem...ands of symmetry H^?mon7 and and harmony are as imperative in sculpture as in any province of art- Such of its products as are for close inspection, as is all proper statuary except colossal v/ork, particularly require that any two like members be in exact symmetry, unless there be clear reason for variation. The statue of a smith might perhaps appropriately represent the right arm in larger form than the left ; or that of a Benjamite have the left larger than the right. So to counteract the optical effect of perspective, in order to apparent sym- metry the real dimensions in the two members may vary.
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