forespace

Updated: May 12, 2025

Conceive if you can, for one could rarely find such an example in pictorial art, of the forespace corrugated with lines paralleling the bottom line of a frame. It would be as difficult for a bicyclist to propel his machine across a plowed field as for one to drive his eye over a foreground thus filled with distracting lines when the goal lay far beyond. Mr.

Henry Rankin Poore - Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures