THE ELEMENTS OF DRAWlNG
IN
THREE LETTERS TO BEGINNERS.
JOHN RUSKIN

LETTER 11/ (excerpts)

The Law of Repetition •

... Another important means of expressing unity is to mark some kind of sympathy among
the different objects, and perhaps the pleasantest, because most surprising, kind of
sympathy, is when one group imitates or repeats another; not in the way of balance or
symmetry, but subordinately, like a far-away and broken echo of it.

The Law of Continuity

If there be no change at all in the shape or size of the objects, there is no continuity; there is
only repetition-monotony.

The Law of Curvature

Well, as curves are more beautiful than straight lines, it is necessary to a good composition
that its continuities of object, mass, or colour should be, if possible, in curves, rather than
straight lines or angular ones.

Graceful curvature is distinguished from ungraceful by two characters: first, its moderation,
that is to say, its close approach to straightness in some parts of its course; and, secondly, by
its variation, that is to say, it's never remaining equal in degree at different parts of its
course.
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José Maria Lopes

Investigador e Docente da Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto.
Doutorado pela FAUP com a Tese O Desenho do Corpo em Portugal no Século XVIII - Os Actos do Desenho / O Desenho dos Actos, em 2009. Lecciona as Unidades Curriculares Desenho I e Figura Humana e Representação do Espaço.
Regente da Unidade Curricular Desenho I, desde 2009;
Membro do Conselho Pedagógico da FAUP desde 2014;
Presidente da Comissão de Equivalências, Reingressos, Transferências e Mudanças de Curso, da FAUP, desde 2010.
Membro Integrado do Núcleo de Desenho do Instituto de Investigação em Arte e Design da FBAUP, desde 2011;
Membro Colaborador do Centro de Investigação Francisco da Holanda FBAUL, desde 2010.
Tem participado no festival Future Places desde 2008.
Desenvolve actividade artística e expõe regularmente o seu trabalho desde 1984

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