Moore, Charles Herbert, 1840-1930 · New York, London, The Macmillan Company · leaf 212
bstraction, of architectural fitness, and of the nature of mate-rials. They do not manifest a fine appreciation of the beautyof the object conventionalized. They are factitious conventionswhich often do violence at once to the forms of nature, and tothe true principles of design. The ear of barley,… … Fig. 97. — Renaissance Arabesque. barley ear, and the flaccid sinuousness of the flower stalk, areexpressive of no architectural or material conditions to whichthe artist had to conform. They express nothing but the de-signers insensitiveness to the character and beauty of the naturalforms. Compare…
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