Chapter IV: Art in Painting

_a._ Unity or completeness in painting:

1. Point of interest; with radiating lines, balance, and
other means of making it prominent.

2. The cycle of colors, complete color, and the contrast
of light and darkness.

3. A story, not embodied in the picture itself, but
needing words of explanation, spoils unity.

4. Unnecessary detail, detracting from central interest
and motive, also spoils unity.

_b._ Truth in painting:

1. Falseness of photographic truth, because of its lack
of unity and purpose.

α. The “out-of-focus” and imaginatively planned
photograph sometimes artistic.

2. Perspective, the painter’s vision of the single
complete experience.

3. To see beauty in things is to see the truth.

4. “Prettiness,” the result of catering to the
shortcomings of the spectator’s taste, is a violation of
the artist’s taste or sense of completeness and truth.

5. Knowledge of life (anatomy) is necessary:

α. One must understand life to portray it.

V. SCULPTURE:

_a._ The Greek Drama of the visual Arts:

1. The unlifelikeness of the material, the removal from
life, makes it more beautiful, and a truer symbol.

_b._ Expresses idea through attitude of the human form.