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 217
.74. Graceful artificiality 98 Nature in Ornament. In the example on p. 97 the offence ofncoherence is somewhat mitigated, inasmuchas the detail is not very real. All sorts ofdifferent flowers grow from a single stemindeed, but the stem is not very obvious.There is a kind of natural confusion in… … 75. De-naturalised floral details. and artificial, and the unreality of the detailprepares one for the violation of naturalgrowth. Even then it is hard to forgive it. Much the same criticism might be passedon the less graceful panel in the centre ofPlate 47. The manner in which flowers ofvarious…
Decoration and ornament · Nature (Esthetics)
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