Posts Tagged ‘Line of Beauty’

Narcissus in the Morning

Friday, September 14th, 2012

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My dog Jesse when he awoke yesterday morning.

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I was struck by how his twisted body formed an S-curve. In aesthetics this is known as the line of beauty. This, William Hogarth thought, was the basis for all great art.

The story of Narcissus is summed up nicely here.

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