Smith, Walter, 1836-1886, Smith, Walter, 1836-1886. Industrial art of the International Exhibition · New York, R. Worthington · leaf 326
material in which he works merelyas a vehicle with which to express his art-idea, he is safe, but as soon as thedesire manifests itself to bring forward the value of the material itself, theart-idea suffers in proportion. It very often happens that an admirably con-ceived and moulded design of an… … Fan : French Court. the vehicle than in the idea itself, and he labors accordingly to give promi-nence to the fact that This is silver, or That is gold, ignoring the art-idea. Inancient metal-work errors of this kind were avoided, because the artist andartisan were one. Now the artist conceives and…
Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.) · Decorative arts
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