The Elements of Drawing

by Ruskin, John

• ISBN13: 9780486227306
• ISBN10: 0486227308
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1971-06-01
• Publisher: Dover Publications

Summary

Timeless work by one of the greatest art critics of all time begins with bare fundamentals and offers brilliant philosophical advise. "...the truth behind Ruskin's statements is always clear..."-American Artist.

Table of Contents

PLATES
A Spanish Chestnut at Carrara (from the drawing by Ruskin in the collection of T. F. Taylor, Esq.)	114	(92)
Lancaster Sands from the engraving of the drawing	206	(1)
J. M. W. Turner
Heysham (from the engraving of the drawing	207
J. M. W. Turner
WOODCUTS AND DIAGRAMS
(Drawn and Cut on the Wood by Miss Byfield from Drawings by the Author)
The Filling of a Square (Exercise I.)	29	(4)
The Gradating of Spaces (Exercise III.)	33	(5)
Tinting Letters into Shape (Exercise V.)	38	(3)
The Outlining of Boughs (Exercise VI.)	41	(8)
How to Draw a Stone (Exercise VIII.)	49	(19)
A Young Shoot of Lilac2	68	(2)
The Disappearance of a Leaf	70	(1)
A Bough of Phillyrea	71	(1)
Upper View and Profile of a Single Spray of the Same	72	(9)
A Tree Trunk (from a woodcut after Titian)	81	(1)
A Sketch	82	(2)
Raphael
Outlines of a Ball, False and True	84	(2)
Part of the Distance in Durer's ``Cannon''	86	(1)
Parts of Durer's ``Flight into Egypt''	87	(1)
Leafage at Root of a Stone Pine	88	(5)
Forms of the Extremities of Trees, False and True	93	(1)
Forms of Separate Boughs, False and True	93	(1)
Conventional Drawing of Boughs	94	(1)
Part of Turner's Etching ``Sheep-Washing''	95	(11)
An Alpine Bridge (seen within a few yards)	106	(1)
The Same (diminishing at distances)	107	(6)
The Hardingesque Foliage	113	(1)
Shoot of Spanish Chestnut (cf. Plate opposite the same page)	114	(1)
Outline of Young Shoot of Oak	115	(6)
A Branch from Turner's ``Aesacus and Hesperie''	121	(1)
Conventional Branch (in the manner of old woodcuts after Titian)	122	(1)
The Same (in the manner of the Carracci)	122	(21)
Diagram Illustrting a Way of Matching Colours	143	(17)
Swiss Cottages	160	(4)
The Law of Principality, in Leaves	164	(2)
Sketch to Illustrate the Same Law in Turner's ``Coblentz''	166	(5)
The Law of Continuity, Illustrated from Turner's ``Calais Sands''	171	(4)
The Law of Curvature, Illustrated from the Bridge in Turner's ``Coblentz''	175	(2)
The Same, Illustrated from the Towers in the Same Drawing	177	(1)
Curves, to Illustrate the Law of Variation in Curvature	178	(1)
Application of the Same Law to Leaves	179	(1)
Types of Tree Trunks, Illustrating Modulation in Curvature	180	(1)
Simplest Type of Radiation in Tree Forms	181	(1)
Perfect Type of the Same	182	(1)
Diagrams showing the Mathematical Centre of Curvature	182	(1)
The Curves of Branches and of Boats	183	(1)
Curve of Young Oak Shoot (Fig. 25) seen from Above	184	(2)
Block Plan of a Leaf of Columbine	186	(7)
Top of an Old Tower, Illustrating the Law of Contrast	193