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 432
man or animal, at all inscale with the surrounding ornament is veryconsiderable. In the Persian panel on p. 169,the ducks are disproportionately small. Andagain, in Plate loi, the figures are for onceoverpowered by the ornament. The artistwas no doubt naively pious : to us such an Annunciation is… … Lustre Flaq-ues, The Element of the Grotesque, 201 just the weight and mass you require, but toget it just where you want it; whereas, in thecase of natural objects, there should be somesort of dramatic reason for their occupyingthis or that position. The creature in thecentre of the upper plaque…
Decoration and ornament · Nature (Esthetics)
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