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LANDSCAPE DESIGN 



Pictorial 

 Enframement, 

 Foregrounds^ 

 Backgrounds, 

 and Planes 

 of Distance 



If a landscape composition is to tell as one unified thing it must be 

 segregated from the things on each side of it. As we have seen, this 

 may be done by its standing alone or being so important that the other 

 things are not noticed ; but in the actual practice of the landscape 

 architect this segregation is almost always accomplished by the creation 

 of some kind of frame, which not only prevents the visual intrusion of 



REIAFION OF ENFRAMLME/STANDVISTA-POINT.A. 



RELATION OrrAIFRAMEMENTAMD VISTA-POJNT: 8. 



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DRAWING XVI 



undesirable objects, but sets definite limits to the composition which 

 is being considered, fixes its center, and so gives value to the composi- 

 tional space-relations of the objects within it. Enframement on the 

 sides of a landscape composition is the most important,* and many 

 scenes are satisfactory when only so much enframed. (See Plate 14.) 

 Overhanging trees may enframe a composition on the top as well (see 

 Drawing II, opp. p. 30), and the shadows of such trees, or a long shadow 

 from an object at the side, or perhaps a low mass of shrubbery over 

 I, ♦ Cf. p. 96-97, Balance. 



