 | Royal institution of Great Britain - 1882 - 840 sidor
...which I have since quoted, but which it will now be the object to examine and amend. The words were : " A composite portrait represents the picture that would rise before the mind's eye of an individual who had the gift of pictorial imagination in an exalted degree." The question to be considered... | |
 | 1878 - 802 sidor
...disposed near the bull's-eye than away from it, and in a greater degree as the marksmen are more skillful. All that has been said of the outlines is equally...highest artists is far from precise, and is so apt to be biased by special cases that may have struck their fancies, that no two artists agree in any of their... | |
 | 1878 - 642 sidor
...distinctness, owing to the mechanical conditions under which the componente were hung. 258 31, 1878 A composite portrait represents the picture that would...artists, is far from precise, and is so apt to be biased by special cases that may have struck their fancies that no two artists agree in any of their... | |
 | Frederic Beecher Perkins - 1879 - 714 sidor
...individual a little out of focus, and who had somewhat moved during the process. I then pointed out that " a composite portrait represents the picture that would...before the mind's eye of a man who had the gift of a pictorial imagination in the highest degree." It is clear from the evidence of those composites,... | |
 | Francis Galton - 1911 - 298 sidor
...out with appropriate distinctness, owing to the mechanical conditions under which the components are hung. A composite portrait represents the picture...highest artists is far from precise, and is so apt to b« biassed by special cases that may have struck their fancies, thai no two artists agree in any of... | |
 | 1879 - 1156 sidor
...individual a little out of focus, and who had somewhat moved during the process. I then pointed out that ' a composite portrait represents the picture that would...a man who had the gift of pictorial imagination in the highest degree.' It is clear, from the evidence of these composites, that generalised images are... | |
 | Miles Orvell - 1989 - 412 sidor
...hazard of the single image and would arrive at an averaged expression that was the sitter's true self. "A composite portrait represents the picture that...gift of pictorial imagination in an exalted degree," Galton wrote.40 (Note Gallon's association of his method wilh the artislic lemperament.) Put logelher... | |
 | Ronald R. Thomas - 1999 - 368 sidor
...descriptions of the visual powers of some of these literary detectives: "A composite portrait represents lhe picture that would rise before the mind's eye of a man who had the gili of pictorial imagination in an exalted degree."10 Galton first described the procedure for making... | |
 | David Bindman - 2002 - 276 sidor
...was fully aware of the artistic implications of his new process and saw it as analogous to ideal art: 'A composite portrait represents the picture that...gift of pictorial imagination in an exalted degree', yet it had the additional merit of .., . . >o scientific precision. If new technology could give a... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1878 - 746 sidor
...off the object-glass of the camera for ten seconds, and afterwards replace it. We then remove No. i from the pins, and No. 2 appears in the front ; we...highest artists is far from precise, and is so apt to be biased by special cases that may have struck their fancies, that no two artists agree in any of their... | |
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The eyes come out with appropriate distinctness, owing to the mechanical conditions under which the components were hung. A composite portrait represents the picture that would rise before the mind's eye of a man who had the gift of pictorial imagination... 