The masterpieces of the Centennial international exhibition of 1876 .. . m^^:BMM^^MJ^y: /•,. Hindoo Bronze Iase. barbarous efforts at ornamentation that come of imitation without let it be remembered that design is not the mere imitation of details ofthe physical world, but adaptation and arrangement of them. Imitation may beseen in the looking-glass, but the glass can hardly be said to design ; so a manwho reproduces the accidental grouping of natural forms to ornament a carpetor a wall-paper only imperfecdy represents the phenomenon of the mirror, withas little thought, the same
The masterpieces of the Centennial international exhibition of 1876 .. . m^^:BMM^^MJ^y: /•,. Hindoo Bronze Iase. barbarous efforts at ornamentation that come of imitation without let it be remembered that design is not the mere imitation of details ofthe physical world, but adaptation and arrangement of them. Imitation may beseen in the looking-glass, but the glass can hardly be said to design ; so a manwho reproduces the accidental grouping of natural forms to ornament a carpetor a wall-paper only imperfecdy represents the phenomenon of the mirror, withas little thought, the same skill in design, and with less reflecdon. The broad clear line, then, which history teaches us to draw between designapplied to industrial and fine art, divides the ornamental from the pictorial, theconventional from the natural adaptation from imitation, the geometrical fromperspective effects. When either branch of design deserts its own characterisdcs and employs INDUSTRIAL ART. 513 the laneuaee of the other, the result will be final debasement, however beautifulat first sight may be
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