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 226
ose lie thepossibilities of perfect art. What if even great artists have been guiltyof all manner of inconsequence in design ?They are so much the less to be trusted assafe guides in the matter of taste. One mayfind authority for any kind of ill-doing. Theaccepted precedents are not all of them… … Photo-TiMTity-James A;tenn»a.London .WC Scroll (3e foliage I03 VII. PARALLEL RENDERINGS. The study of ornament should proceed paripassu with the study of vegetable forms—notbotany necessarily. The scientific study of botany is quite athing apart. The ornamentist has no moreoccasion for exact…
Decoration and ornament · Nature (Esthetics)
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