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 210
l growth, do not, at all events, bluntlycontradict it. The graceful character of the growth onPlate 43 is not precisely that of the lily; butone is hardly disposed to quarrel with a com-position in itself so satisfactory. The detailis not so natural that you miss the naturalgrowth. As a rendering… … Pmoto-Timt Ijy J.Aktra.n.6.1}ue.n S^uu-tHf.C. Jtb 18 Century flower reDdenio^. Co7isistency in Modification of Nature. 95 that the artist looked at the lily for himself,and conventionalised it according to hisneeds. It almost seems as though the plantmight have been trained to grow so. This is. the…
Decoration and ornament · Nature (Esthetics)
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