Chapter I: Front Matter

A CHILD’S GUIDE TO
PICTURES

_Copyright, 1906, by Detroit Publishing Company._

View on the Seine. _Homer D. Martin._

(_Also called “The Harp of the Winds.”_)
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A CHILD’S GUIDE TO
PICTURES

BY
CHARLES H. CAFFIN
AUTHOR OF “HOW TO STUDY PICTURES”

NEW YORK
THE BAKER & TAYLOR COMPANY
1908

COPYRIGHT, 1908, BY
THE BAKER & TAYLOR COMPANY

Published, July, 1908

THE TROW PRESS, NEW YORK

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. THE FEELING FOR BEAUTY 11

II. ART AND HER TWIN SISTER, NATURE 21

III. NATURE IS HAPHAZARD; ART IS ARRANGEMENT 30

IV. CONTRAST 40

V. GEOMETRIC COMPOSITION 55

VI. GEOMETRIC COMPOSITION (_Continued_) 63

VII. THE ACTION, MOVEMENT, AND COMPOSITION OF THE FIGURE 75

VIII. THE CLASSIC LANDSCAPE 83

IX. NATURALISTIC COMPOSITION 95

X. NATURALISTIC COMPOSITION (_Continued_) 106

XI. THE NATURALISTIC LANDSCAPE 117

XII. FORM AND COLOR 129

XIII. COLOR 144

XIV. COLOR--VALUES--SUBTLETY 160

XV. COLOR--TEXTURE, ATMOSPHERE, TONE 180

XVI. COLOR--TONE 204

XVII. BRUSH-WORK AND DRAWING 219

XVIII. SUBJECT, MOTIVE, AND POINT OF VIEW 230

ILLUSTRATIONS

FACING
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View on the Seine _Homer D. Martin_ _Frontispiece_

La Disputá del Sacramento _Raphael_ 56

Jurisprudence _Raphael_ 66

The Manitou Lunette _E. H. Blashfield_ 86

Dido Building Carthage _J. M. W. Turner_ 92

The Sower _J. F. Millet_ 100

Young Woman Opening a Window _J. Vermeer_ 108

Crossing the Brook _J. M. W. Turner_ 118

Paysage _J. B. C. Corot_ 128

Washington Crossing the Delaware _E. Leutze_ 140

Prince Balthazar Carlos _Velasquez_ 168

The Little White Girl _J. M. Whistler_ 176

The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine _Correggio_ 192

Light and Shade _George Inness_ 202

Evening _Anton Mauve_ 246

A CHILD’S GUIDE TO PICTURES