Kelley, Charles Fabens, 1885-, Riverside Press (Cambridge, Mass.), Mowll, William Luther, joint author · Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company · leaf 103
chmust be considered are sizeand shape (Fig. 96). Inplacing these shapes in defi-nite relations one to theother, new areas are formedby the spaces or groundof the design left betweenthem, and in the careful ad-justment of these spaces theproblem acquires a new im-portance and a double signi-ficance… … Fig. 97. JAPANESE SWORD-GUAKD come to mind in which theground or surface is covered byvery delicate patterns whichhardly alter the general appear-ance (Fig. 47), and, on theother hand, examples in whiclithe design is so rich that theground seems to appear byaccident. Every designer mustdetermine…
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