Dyer, Elizabeth · Boston, Houghton Mifflin · leaf 137
BEAUTY, SUITABILITY, BECOMINGNESS 121 Conventional designs are more artistic than naturalistic ones because they are adapted to the space to be filled and to the texture, and also because it is inconsistent to have flowers or animals that seem real on table covers, wall-papers, fab¬ rics, rugs, etc. … Fig. 24. Naturalistic Fig. 25. Conventional Flower Designs Flower Design We now have considered the elements that we must loot for in studying design. First we want to consider the proportions or space rela¬ tions of the design. Do they produce a feeling of satisfac¬ tion as we observe them? Then…
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