Nature in ornament; an enquiry into the natural element in ornamental design & a survey of the ornamental treatment of natural forms (1902)
Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910 · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 194
his idea logically through.A formal arrangement of lines involves anequally formal kind of foliation, and freegrowth pledges him to equally natural foliage.So also natural detail prescribes free linesof growth, and conventional detail implieslines proportionately conventional. If, that is to say,… … Photo-Tmri by t •mes Altermm i,ondon M C Cbr^sa-ntbernuro Patlerr). Consistency ill Modification of Nature. ^] too hard and formal. On Plate 39 the sym-metric lines on which the design is set outlogically determined a certain restraint in therendering of the lily, and it is reduced accord-ingly to…
Decoration and ornament · Nature (Esthetics)
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