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Picturesqueness

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Picturesqueness 

in the visual arts, the dynamic interaction of shapes, volumes, areas of color, lines, and chiaroscuro. This interaction expresses a strong feeling of overall mobility, changeability, and diversity of appearance. Picturesqueness is expressed by the predominance of expressive color (in painting) and shading (in graphic art) over sharp delineation. In sculpture it is manifest in the gentle transitions, the interfusion, and the projection of volumetric forms in space. Picturesqueness in architecture is conveyed through asymmetry, separation of principal compositional elements, dynamics of form, and, sometimes, color and decor. In the broad sense of the work, picturesqueness comprises free, lively expressiveness, vivid figurativeness, and colorfulness.

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Wólfflin, H. Osnovnye poniatiia istorii iskusstv. Moscow-Leningrad, 1930. (Translated from German.)
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The natural aptitude of the French for seizing the picturesqueness of things seems to be peculiarly evinced in what paintings and engravings they have of their whaling scenes.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
The absence of picturesqueness cannot be laid to the charge of the docks opening into the Thames.
The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context
Just where she had paused, the brook chanced to form a pool so smooth and quiet that it reflected a perfect image of her little figure, with all the brilliant picturesqueness of her beauty, in its adornment of flowers and wreathed foliage, but more refined and spiritualized than the reality.
The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
 
 
 
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