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Line & form (1902)

Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 · London : G. Bell · leaf 230

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e quite sufficientfor some purposes. The same thing would becapable of more elaborate treatment and differenteffect by relieving the birds upon a darker ground,by defining the details of their forms more, or byalternating them in black or white, or by adopt-ing the simple principle of counterchange… … LINEAR EXPRESSION OF FEATURES, FEATHERS AND FUR INOTES FROM NATURE.211 THE ORNAMENTAL AIM ally disposed, would give us distinct decorativemotives. It is quite open to the designer to select hislines and forms straight from nature, and, bearingin mind the necessity for selection of the…

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