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 370
he merely pictorialtreatment, on the one hand, seems as remotefrom ornament as the absolutely abstractinvention, on the other, is removed fromnature. And yet it is impossible to denythat a painter, for example, may combine witha very natural rendering such regard to theconditions of design as will… … Pmoto-Tiht: ev .Jam.s Akerm.i>.Lon<ion ,W C pruit pattern^ A^Ml1ar^ Morns, Treatment. 169 ment; but it is something more than mereflower-painting : there is design in it. As aprinted fabric in which the same flowers mustperforce recur at regular and very short inter-vals, the artist himself…
Decoration and ornament · Nature (Esthetics)
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