Identifier: theorypracticeo00dowa (find matches)
Title: Theory and practice of teaching art
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Dow, Arthur W. (Arthur Wesley), 1857-1922
Subjects: Art
Publisher: New York, Teachers College, Columbia University
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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FIG. 12.—SUBORDINATION (AND SYMMETRY). MEDIAEVAL METAL-WORK. Subordination is that principle by which the parts are mutuallydependent upon some dominating part or group of parts. A goodillustration is the flower with its main line of stem, from whichradiate the lesser lines of leaves and petals. (Fig. 9) Linesand spaces may be arranged in principal and subordinate groups.(Fig. 13) There is a central or dominating idea and all others are con-tributory, like the point of a story, the centre of interestor the focus of the picture, the main line of the statue,the style of the building, the key of the color scheme. 18 Theory and Practice of Teaching Art An exercise in this principle is illustrated in Fig. 13. A branchof apples furnishes a set of lines and spaces that may be set intoa rectangular panel. The unity of such a design is dependentupon the simple and clear disposition of the main spacings.
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FIG. 13.—PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN; SUBORDINATION. ORIGINAL DESIGNS. Theory and Practice of Teaching Art 19

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