Art-studies from nature, as applied to design : for the use of architects, designers, and manufacturers . s and countries have constituted the truly beautifulin art. These are summed up briefly in the propositions contained inthe opening chapter of Mr. Owen Joness Grammar of Orna-ment. We extract the following :— Proposition 3.—As Architecture, so all works of the Decora-tive Arts should possess fitness, proportion, harmony, the result ofall which is repose. Proposition 5.—Decoration should never be purposely con-structed : that which is beautiful is true, that which is true isbeautiful. Propo
Art-studies from nature, as applied to design : for the use of architects, designers, and manufacturers . s and countries have constituted the truly beautifulin art. These are summed up briefly in the propositions contained inthe opening chapter of Mr. Owen Joness Grammar of Orna-ment. We extract the following :— Proposition 3.—As Architecture, so all works of the Decora-tive Arts should possess fitness, proportion, harmony, the result ofall which is repose. Proposition 5.—Decoration should never be purposely con-structed : that which is beautiful is true, that which is true isbeautiful. Proposition 8.—All ornament should be based upon ageometrical construction. Proposition 9.—As in Architecture, so in the Decorative Arts,every assemblage of forms should be arranged on certain definite CRVSTALS OF SNOW. 155 proportions; the whole and each particular member should be amultiple of some particular unit. Proposition 10.— Harmony of form consists in the properbalancing and contrast of the straight, the inclined, and thecurved. Further on, from the same high authority, we receive as. Fig. 38. an axiom—That there can be no perfect composition whereeither of the three primary elements is wanting—the straight,the inclined, and the curved, or where they are not so harmonizedthat the one preponderates over the other two. In the crystalsof snow we perceive these last conditions are implicitly fulfilled, 156 ART-STUDIES FROM NATURE. inasmuch as they include the varieties, straight, angular, andcurved, of which the angular has a decided preponderance. With regard to the proportions of number on which thesefigures are based, we shall find them almost all deficient in themaintenance of a ratio, water crystallizing at an angle of 6o°, afact exemplified in the radial arms and the secondary and
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