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 473
to provethat it is not only taken from, but meant torepresent, water. Compare it with the waveand lotus pattern on p. 217. There are certain arrangements of wavedand zigzag lines which are so universallyemployed in ornament that one can scarcelydescribe them as Egyptian, Greek, Gothic, orwhat not;… … i68. Shell ornament. thing about the Jap-anese renderings, andthey are very various,is that there is moremovement in the water(p. 219); and that theartist turned to accountthe crest of the waveand the spray (pp. 219and 220). Take away from the circularwave ornament (164) on p. 219, the…
Decoration and ornament · Nature (Esthetics)
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