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 366
n, as elsewhere, brains countfor something. We have, then, to seek in nature, not onlybeautiful types, but types amenable to ourartistic purpose and the means by which weintend to carry it out. The very mentionof a material is often enough to suggest avail-able types in nature. Indeed, it would be… … Treatment. 167 such materials, to such and such treatment ?—and so on. And it should be noted that, just as it isnot in the most romantic, or what is calledpicturesque, scenery that the landscape painterfinds subject-matter for his pictures, so it isnot in the most obviously elegant and grace-ful…
Decoration and ornament · Nature (Esthetics)
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