Creative & imitative art : decoration and ornamentation (1873)
J. T. L. (J. T. Lyon) · Brussels : M. Weissenbruch · leaf 83
y seen in nature, it would be mere affectation to say we were copying nature when making use of them; (see fig. 22) and when we beautify the surface by a direct copy of some object in nature, we are ornamenting by imitating, (see any picture) ; and when we make it evident that some object in nature… … I referred in Part I to three different descriptions of egg-cups; the first, creative, formed of a simple curve; the second, imitative, formed from the direct copy of a natural object ; the third, creative and imitative, formed of a simple curve, and the natural object merely used as
Decoration and ornament · Glass painting and staining
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