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 76
d them. The artist didnot altogether imagine those graceful spraysof leafage, anymore than Ve-ronese evolvedhis lovely green-blue skies fromhis imagina-tion. You seejust such skiesin Italy; asyou see also inTitians countrythe purple hillsand quasi-con-ventional land-scapes he put in-to his… … .7 Chinese rendering of wistaria-old embroidery. 30 Nature in Ornament. matter of fact, the flower-stalk is often morein harmony with the flowers than with theleaves, as in the begonia, salvia, sea holly,and other plants. The leaf-stalk, also, issometimes bright crimson, as in the littlewild…
Decoration and ornament · Nature (Esthetics)
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