HARMONY OF SOUNDS, COLOURS, AND LINES.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXXII, Issue 5800, 1 May 1876, Page 3

HARMONY OF SOUNDS, COLOURS, AND LINES.

To the Editor : Sir,— It is a well known fact, that while certain arrangements of sounds please the ear, so ceitain Airangements of colours and lines please the eye. It is equally well um lei stood that discordant notes jar upon a musical ear, m the same way that discoidant colouring oftends a cultivated eye. So it is with lines, wheie ciicles and squares, or rectangles are incongruously mixed together, the geneial effect is bad in the extieme ; it matters not whether it bo displayed in designs for nnnufactuies 01 architecture, something like uniformity of «tyle is requisite throughout. Let any cue take a look at Nathan's buildings, or at the New Zeal md Insurance Buildings, and theie is a bometlnng about them which pleases the eye. There is a certain pioportio.i of p.uU, and a certain uniformity of design that conveys a feeling o gratification or admiration to the beholdei. Look again at some of the buildings recently erected in Auckland. Where is their symmetiy displayed? They will remain moie cr less, an aichitectur.il eyesoie as long a-, they stind. Just take a look at the buildups lefei led to, and judge whether I am light or wion;,-. -I am, &c, Haumomm.