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 326
ernicious. They represent, when all is said,the sum of past experience. Past masters oftheir crafts must be presumed to have knownsomething. The course of art ran, at allevents, more evenly along the broad smoothruts aforesaid. Whatever the traditions of his art, andwhether he mean to follow them… … Photo-Tint ov t-anjes Aj£erm»Ti.Lon<ion.W C Orchid 8n Fundus pa^lteno - Chinese Tradition in Design. 147 of the divers ways of doing it : to presume torely upon his unaided insight is sheer self-satisfied conceit—worse than the pedantry ofthe typical purist (mock-mediaevalist, or what-ever he…
Decoration and ornament · Nature (Esthetics)
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