Creative & imitative art : decoration and ornamentation (1873)
J. T. L. (J. T. Lyon) · Brussels : M. Weissenbruch · leaf 105
95 ART IN ORNAMENTATION kind, being in its very nature deceptive, could never be pronounced to be right. I will further observe, that in such a case, nature could not by painting be more nearly approached, so that those persons who would tell us that … Fig. }6. CHINESE. Fig. 36. the art of painting is raised by its direct approach to nature (a most common modern belief), must clearly be in favour of such a monstrosity. Again, this figure can only be seen correctly from that point of view from which the artist painted it, and if we move to the one…
Decoration and ornament · Glass painting and staining
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