Word: eye
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...details of a picture. This is the most important art in painting, and fixes the talent of the artist. There is but one law which governs the whole subject of composition, and that is the law of relation of the greater and lesser masses in a picture. The eye is first attracted by the greatest contrast, the greatest dark against the greatest light or vice versa, and then seeks another contrast more moderate in tone, and so on until the story of the painting is told. If this law is not strictly observed, and if the object which is second...
...painting a picture there is but one line to be observed, which runs horizontally through the middle of the picture, and on this line may be placed every object which can please or attract the eye. Often the placing of an object three-quarters of an inch below or above this line will throw out the picture. To be pleasing to the eye a painting must contain more than one object, for the eye becomes wearied easily if it sees but one thing, and rests with relief upon a second object, from which it returns with greater interest...
...three plates are now placed one above the other, and printed, and the result is an exact reproduction of the original, so perfect that no painter who ever lived could have copied it as accurately. Certain subtle, delicate qualities in a landscape, never suspected before are brought before the eye. The whole publishing world is looking to this new process, and before many years we may expect to see all our periodicals printed in colors...
...most clearly brought forward. It is a good plan to make rough sketches from 10 or even 20 points, then lay them all out, and the most untrained can at once choose the best. The second rule is never to express in a painting more than the eye can take in at one glance. To put in more confuses and crowds the picture. It is very important before the sketch is begun to pick out the darkest and the lightest points. Even in the dullest subject it is invariably true that one point is a little darker than all others...
...Blount, the commissioner sent for this purpose, proved a prejudiced partisan. (1) Evidence taken in secret. (2) Most of testimony royalist. (3) Important witnesses rejected. (4) Evidence favorable to revolutionists suppressed. (b) Blount's report essentially false. (1) Contradicted by Stevens and Thurston. (2) Their testimony corroborated by reputable eye-witnesses...