Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive) A CHILD’S GUIDE TO PICTURES [Illustration: _Copyright, 1906, by Detroit Publishing Company._ View on the Seine. _Homer D. Martin._ (_Also called “The Harp of the Winds.”_) ] A CHILD’S GUIDE TO PICTURES BY CHARLES H. CAFFIN AUTHOR OF “HOW TO STUDY PICTURES” NEW YORK THE BAKER & TAYLOR COMPANY 1908 COPYRIGHT, 1908, BY THE BAKER & TAYLOR COMPANY Published, July, 1908 THE TROW PRESS, NEW YORK CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. THE FEELING FOR BEAUTY 11 II. ART AND HER TWIN SISTER, NATURE 21 III. NATURE IS HAPHAZARD; ART IS ARRANGEMENT 30 IV. CONTRAST 40 V. GEOMETRIC COMPOSITION 55 VI. GEOMETRIC COMPOSITION (_Continued_) 63 VII. THE ACTION, MOVEMENT, AND COMPOSITION OF THE FIGURE 75 VIII. THE CLASSIC LANDSCAPE 83 IX. NATURALISTIC COMPOSITION 95 X. NATURALISTIC COMPOSITION (_Continued_) 106 XI. THE NATURALISTIC LANDSCAPE 117 XII. FORM AND COLOR 129 XIII. COLOR 144 XIV. COLOR--VALUES--SUBTLETY 160 XV. COLOR--TEXTURE, ATMOSPHERE, TONE 180 XVI. COLOR--TONE 204 XVII. BRUSH-WORK AND DRAWING 219 XVIII. SUBJECT, MOTIVE, AND POINT OF VIEW 230 ILLUSTRATIONS FACING PAGE View on the Seine _Homer D. Martin_ _Frontispiece_ La Disputá del Sacramento _Raphael_ 56 Jurisprudence _Raphael_ 66 The Manitou Lunette _E. H. Blashfield_ 86