Creative & imitative art : decoration and ornamentation (1873)
J. T. L. (J. T. Lyon) · Brussels : M. Weissenbruch · leaf 29
ound we may regard it, a symmetrical form is presented to our view. For this reason, however, appears to argue our Artist, if we are to make an uncom- mon egg-cup, we must do away with our beautiful oval outline, and enrich it with figures sticking out from the side, or perhaps — which is of course… … Fig- /• Fig. 6. Fig- 4. The oval shaped egg-cup (Jig. 4), I call creative Art; the rose idea (Jig. 4), imitative Art ; and (Jig. 6) where the flower has merely been used as a suggestion for beau- tifying the natural form ol the object, I call partly creative and partly imitative. In this last form…
Decoration and ornament · Glass painting and staining
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