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Page 187
... aesthetic theory in China was another product of the spirit of inquiry and introspection that was abroad in these restless years . About AD 300 a long pas- sionate poem , the " Wen Fu , " had been composed on the subject of the agony ...
... aesthetic theory in China was another product of the spirit of inquiry and introspection that was abroad in these restless years . About AD 300 a long pas- sionate poem , the " Wen Fu , " had been composed on the subject of the agony ...
Page 415
... aesthetic principles . While the 16th - century Italian artist and biographer Giorgio Vasari praised Michelangelo for his use of ornamentation to cover defects of buildings or nature , Francesco Milizia , an 18th - century Italian art ...
... aesthetic principles . While the 16th - century Italian artist and biographer Giorgio Vasari praised Michelangelo for his use of ornamentation to cover defects of buildings or nature , Francesco Milizia , an 18th - century Italian art ...
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... aesthetic advocated severe precision of line and Neoplastic shape , austerely pristine surfaces , a Spartan economy of aesthetic form , and purity of colour . Rietveld's Schroeder House , built in 1924 at Utrecht , The Netherlands , was ...
... aesthetic advocated severe precision of line and Neoplastic shape , austerely pristine surfaces , a Spartan economy of aesthetic form , and purity of colour . Rietveld's Schroeder House , built in 1924 at Utrecht , The Netherlands , was ...
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