Dresser, Christopher · London : and New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter, & Galpin · leaf 116
100 PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN. should be neutral, inasmuch as it should not present large masses of positive colour, but should have an equality of rich harmonious colours throughout ; that it should be " bloomy," or have the effect of a garden full of flowei-s, or better, of the slope of a Swiss alp,… … Fig. 80. colour. This is the effect which a carpet should present, yet it should never present flowers, imitatively rendered, as its ornamentation. Such imitative renderings are not to be produced by the ornamentist ; they must come from the pictorial artist, for they arc pictures. They cannot form…
Decoration and ornament
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