fall some of the moderntoymakers have fallen into is to make their toysconsciously picturesque or quaint, by simulating alook of age. The dolls-house, let us say, appearsto have a leaky thatched roof, its walls are paintedwith cracks and broken plaster. This is quitebeside the mark. In the ages of… … TOY VILLAGE DESIGNED AND EXECUTED BY MISSES RENEE DUNN AND IOAN DE BUDE 74 Studio- Talk is true of the work of the early Flemish andItalian painters. In Botticelli we begin to see thebroken arch or pillar, and the convention of apicturesque background took hold and spreadlike a noxious weed, till…
Art · Decoration and ornament
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