INDEX
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W
A
Absorbent canvas, 192
Academic drawing, 34
Academic and conventional, 68
Academic students, 68
Accuracy, scientific and artistic, 36
Anatomy, study of, its importance, 36, 122
"Ansidei Madonna," Raphael's, 231
Apelles and his colours, 31
Architecture, proportion in, 230
Art, some definitions of, 18
Artist, the, 27
Atmosphere indicated by shading, 102
Atmospheric colours, 39
Audley, Lady, Holbein's portrait of, 248
B
"Bacchus and Ariadne," Titian's, 154, 193
Backgrounds, 93, 141
Balance, 219
Balance between straight lines and curves, 220
Balance between flat and gradated tones, 221
Balance between light and dark tones, 222
Balance between warm and cold colours, 223
Balance between interest and mass, 224
Balance between variety and unity, 225
"Bank-note" papers, 285
Bastien Lepage, 204
Bath for etching, 283
Beauty, definition of, 23
Beauty and prettiness, 135
Beauty and truth, 22
"Birth of Venus, the," Botticelli's, 163
Black chalk, 179
Black Conté, 280
Black glass, the use of a, 120, 202
Blake, example of parallelism, 145
Blake's designs, 51, 169
Blake's use of the vertical, 155
Blocking in the drawing, 90
Blocking out with square lines, 85, 120
"Blue Boy," Gainsborough's, 223
Botany, the study of, 36
Botticelli's work, 34, 51, 145, 163
Boucher's heads compared with Watteau's, 211
Boundaries of forms, 93
Boundaries of masses in Nature, 195
Bread, use of, in charcoal drawing, 276
Browning, R., portraits of, 250
Brush, manipulation of the, 114
Brush strokes, 115
Brushes, various kinds of, 115
Burke on "The Sublime and the Beautiful," 135
Burne-Jones, 55, 71, 125, 177
C
Camera, use of the, 286
Carbon pencils, 180
Carlyle, 64
Circle, perfect curve of, to be avoided, 138
Chalks, drawing in, 125
Charcoal drawing, 54, 111, 113, 192, 275;
fixing solution, 277
Chavannes, Peuvis de, 55, 103
Chiaroscuro, 53
Chinese art, 21
China and Japan, the art of, 59
Colour, contrasts of, 208
Colours for figure work, 273
Colours, a useful chart of, 191
Classic architecture, 148
Claude Monet, 62, 190
Clothes, the treatment of, 253
Composition of a picture, the, 216
Constable, 149
Conté crayon, 192, 277
"Contrasts in Harmony," 136
Conventional art, 74
Conventional life, deadness of the, 270
Corners of the panel or canvas, the, 160
Corot, his masses of foliage, 197, 214
Correggio, 206
Crow-quill pen, the, 283
Curves, how to observe the shape of, 90, 162, 209
Curves and straight lines, 220
D
Darwin, anecdote of, 243
Deadness, to avoid, 132, 193
Decorative work, 183
Degas, 66
"Dither," 71
Diagonal lines, 160
Discord and harmony, 173
Discordant lines, 172
Draperies of Watteau, the, 211
Drapery studies in chalks, 125
Drapery in portrait-drawing, 253
Draughtsmanship and impressionism, 66
Drawing, academic, 35
Drawing, definition of, 31
E
East, arts of the, 57
Edges, variety of, 192
Edges, the importance of the subject of, 198
Egg and dart moulding, 138
Egyptian sculpture, 135
Egyptian wall paintings, 51
El Greco, 169
Elgin Marbles, the, 135
Ellipse, the, 138
"Embarquement pour l'Île de Cythère," Watteau's, 211
Emerson on the beautiful, 214
Emotional power of the arts, 20
Emotional significance of objects, 31
Erechtheum, moulding from the, 138
Etching, 283
Exercises in mass drawing, 110
Exhibitions, 57
Expression in portrait-drawing, 242
Eye, anatomy of the, 105
Eye, the, in portrait-drawing, 242
Eyebrow, the, 105
Eyelashes, the, 108
Eyelids, the, 106
F
"Fête Champêtre," Giorgioni's, 151
Figure work, colours for, 273
"Finding of the Body of St. Mark," 123, 236
Fixing positions of salient points, 86
Flaubert, 68
Foliage, treatment of, 196
Foreshortenings, 93
Form and colour, 18
Form, the influence of, 32
Form, the study of, 81
Frans Hals, 246
French Revolution, Carlyle's, 64
French schools, 68
Fripp, Sir Alfred, 91
Fromentin's definition of art, 23
Fulness of form indicated by shading, 102, 124
G
Gainsborough, the charm of, 209, 223
Genius and talent, 17
Geology, the study of, 36
Giorgioni, 151, 196
"Giorgioni, The School of," Walter Pater's, 29
Giotto, 222
Glass pens, 283
Goethe, 64
Gold point, 275
Gold and silver paint for shading, 125
Gothic architecture, 148, 150
Gradation, variety of, 199
Greek architecture, 221
Greek art in the Middle Ages, 130
Greek art, variety in, 133
Greek vivacity of moulding, 134
Greek and Gothic sculpture, 147
Greek type of profile, 140
Greuze, 221
H
Hair, the treatment of, 77, 102
Hair, effect of style upon the face, 180
Half tones, 98
"Hannibal crossing the Alps," Turner's, 163
Hardness indicated by shading, 102
Harsh contrasts, effect of, 171
Hatching, 118
Health, questions of, 269
Henner, the work of, 124
High lights, 94
Hogarth's definition, 136
Holbein's drawings, 99, 179, 247
Holl, Frank, 222
Horizontal, calm and repose of the, 150
Horizontal and vertical, the, 149
Human Anatomy for Art Students, 91
Human figure, the outline of the, 52
I
Impressionism, 195, 257
Impressionist vision, 61
Ingres, studies of, 73, 274
Ink used in lithography, 282
Intellect and feeling, 19
Intuitions, 17
Italian Renaissance, the, 51
Italian work in the fifteenth century, 34
J
Japanese art, 21
Japanese method, a, 47
Japanese and Chinese use of contrasts of colour, 208
K
Keats' definition of beauty, 22
L
Landscapes of Watteau, the, 211
Lang, Andrew, his definition of art, 19
Lawrence, Lord, portrait of, 250
Lead pencil, 192, 274
Lecoq de Boisbaudran, M., 260
Lehmann, R., portraits by, 250
Leonardo da Vinci, 51, 206, 227
Light, 38
Light and shade, principles of, 51, 95
Lighting and light effects, 202
Likeness, catching the, 240
Line and the circle, the, 137
Line drawing and mass drawing, 48, 50
Lines expressing repose or energy, 163
Line, the power of the, 50, 80
Lines, value of, in portrait-painting, 138
Lines of shading, different, 102, 123
Lithographic chalk, 192
Lithography, 281
"Love and Death," Watts', 156
M
Manet, 206
Mass drawing, 49, 58, 80, 81, 110
Masters, past and modern, 272
Materials, 271
Mathematical proportions, 228
Measuring comparative distances, 88
Measurements, vertical and horizontal, 88
Medium, the use of, 111
Michael Angelo, the figures of, 33, 53, 56
Michael Angelo and Degas, 66
Millais, 196
Mist, effect of a, on the tone of a picture, 188
Model, the, 61, 81
Monet, Claude, 118
Morris's definition of art, 19
N
Nature, variety of forms in, 187
Nature's tendency to pictorial unity of arrangement, 186
Newspaper as a background, 99
Norman architecture, 148
O
Oil, surplus in paint, 191
Originality, 76
"Our Lady of the Rocks," L. da Vinci's, 206
Outline drawing, 50
Outline studies and models, 81
P
Paint, the vitality of, 114
Paint, the consistency of, 117
Paint, effect of oil in thick, 191
"Painted Poetry," 46
Painter's training, the object of the, 29
Painting and drawing, 110
Panel or canvas, the, 159
Paolo Uccello, 171
Paolo Veronese, 145, 163
Paper for drawing, 279, 284
Parallel shading, 100
Parallelism of lines, 145
Parthenon, the, 55
Pater, Walter, 29
Pen-and-ink drawing, 101, 282
Pens for pen-and-ink drawing, 283
Perspective, the study of, 36, 195
Philip IV, Velázquez' portrait of, 194
Photograph, failure of the, 72
Picture galleries, the influence of, 33
Pictures, small and large, treatment of, 183
Planes of tone, painting in the, 122
Pre-Raphaelite paintings, 46
Pre-Raphaelite movement, the, 257
Preparatory drawings, disadvantage of, 121
Primitive art, 55, 128
Primitive emotions, 21
Procedure, in commencing a drawing, 265
Profiles, beauty of, 140
Proportions, 228
Poppy oil and turpentine, the use of, 119
Portrait-drawing, 99, 239
"Portrait of the Artist's Daughter," Sir E. Burne-Jones's, 177
Pose, the, 251
Peuvis de Chavannes, 55, 103
Q
Quality and texture, variety in, 189
R
Radiating lines, 171
"Rape of Europa, The," Paul Veronese's, 163
Raphael, 53, 231
Red rays, 39, 192, 278
Reed pens, 283
Rembrandt and his colours, 31, 204, 208
Reproduction, advantages of up-to-date, 104, 269
Retina, effect of light on the, 38
Reynolds' contrasts of colour, 208
Rhythm, definition of, 27, 127, 227
Right angle, power of the, 156
Roman sculpture, lack of vitality in, 133
Rossetti, 55
Royal Academy Schools, 69
Rubens, 162
Ruskin, 17
S
Schools of Art, 68
Scientific and artistic accuracy, 36
Scientific study, necessity for, 36
Scumbling, 111
Shading, 51, 93, 101, 124
Shape, variety of, 185
Silhouette, the, 66
Silver-point, 275
Silver-point work, shading in, 101
Sitter, the, 249
Softness indicated by shading, 102, 123
Solar spectrum, the, 38
Solids as flat copy, 84
Spanish school, the, 62
Straight lines indicative of strength, 148
Straight lines and flat tones, analogy between, 209
Strong light in contrast with dark shadow, 206
Study of drawing, the, 80
Stump, the, 54
Style, 288
"Sublime and the Beautiful, The," Burke's, 135
"Surrender of Breda, The," Velázquez', 161, 194
Sympathetic lines, 173
T
Talent and genius, 17
Teachers in Art Schools, 69
Technical side of an art, the, 21
Thickness and accent, variety of, 143
Tintoretto, 123, 237
Titian, 53, 154
Tolstoy's definition of art, 19
Tone, meaning of the word, 121, 187, 208
Tone values, variety of, 187
Toned paper, drawing on, 125
Tones, large flat, the effect of, 207
Touch, the sense of, 40
Trafalgar Square lions, the, 78
Trees, the masses of, 196
Turner, 163, 205, 214, 223
Types, lifelessness of, 134
U
"Ulysses deriding Polyphemus," Turner's, 214
Unity and variety, 132
Unity of line, 144
V
"Vale of Best," Millais', 196
Value, meaning of the word as applied to a picture, 188
Values of tone drawing, the, 122
Van Dyck, his use of the straight line, 151
Variety in symmetry, 142
"Variety in Unity," 136
"Varying well," 136
Velázquez, 53, 60, 161
Venetian painters, and the music of edges, 193
Venetians, the, their use of straight lines, 151
Venetians, system and principles of design of the, 217
"Venus, Mercury, and Cupid," Correggio's, 206
Vertical, the, associated with the sublime, 149
Vertical lines, feeling associated with, 182
Vision, 38
Visual blindness, 47
Visual memory, the, 256
W
Ward, the animal painter, 124
Warm colours, 224
Watteau, the charm of, 209
Watts, G.F., portraits by, 249
Watts' use of the right angle, 156
Windsor, Holbein's portraits at, 247
Whistler, a master of tone, 190, 222, 251
White casts, drawing from, 99
White chalk, 180
White paint, 191
White pastel, 280