. The builders of the pyramid; the story of Shelby County: its resources and developments . l others in their tombs and temples, their obelisksand sphynxes. In domestic art they were masters, for in all the con-veniences and elegancies of building they seem to have anticipatedeverything that has been accomplished in modern times. DECORATIVE INSTINCT OF EGYPTIANS. The Egyptians were eminently wellversed in decorative art. On the largerquestions of the aesthetic in schemes of de-sign, of the meaning of ornament, symbolicor religious, and of the value and effect ofcolor, they possessed full knowl
. The builders of the pyramid; the story of Shelby County: its resources and developments . l others in their tombs and temples, their obelisksand sphynxes. In domestic art they were masters, for in all the con-veniences and elegancies of building they seem to have anticipatedeverything that has been accomplished in modern times. DECORATIVE INSTINCT OF EGYPTIANS. The Egyptians were eminently wellversed in decorative art. On the largerquestions of the aesthetic in schemes of de-sign, of the meaning of ornament, symbolicor religious, and of the value and effect ofcolor, they possessed full knowledge of truedecorative effect. Their love of form anddrawing was inherent, and in all their dec-orative work they never lost sight of theoriginal pictures. This remained with themas shown by their hieroglyphic might modify for taste and fashion,yet the artistic form remained to the veryend. Their hieroglyphs were not only awriting but a decoration. Their positionwas ruled for a motif, and the arrangementof groups of hieroglyphs was always main-tained for decorative Central Column from ihe Palace-Temple at Karnac. The Egyptian, with true decorative instinct, clung to his pic-torial writing, and was rewarded by having the most beautiful 91 chirography that has ever existed. This is seen in their adaptationof the scenes of peace and war to the gigantic mural surfaces of thepylons and temples, in their arrangements of ornament on smallobjects of daily life and in all things decorative either in coloror drawing. To study the elements of decorative design, both in color andin drawing, it is to Egypt we must turn for our inspiration. All ourknowledge of decorative art is but an evolution from the Egyptian,
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