Canadian wood products industries . lgar ideas, the results from an artistic February, 1916 CANADIAN WOOD W O R K R R 19 point of view might be deplorable. When, therefore,we find in the style incoherence, abundance of mean-ingless detail, want of definite plan, and vulgar displayin the product, we can easily understand how it hap-pened to come about. The style at the beginning had many good features,but in process of time came that phase of it to whichhas been attached the appellation Rococo. Besidesrocks and shells as decorative features, are grottos,roses, cornucopias, vases with spilling c
Canadian wood products industries . lgar ideas, the results from an artistic February, 1916 CANADIAN WOOD W O R K R R 19 point of view might be deplorable. When, therefore,we find in the style incoherence, abundance of mean-ingless detail, want of definite plan, and vulgar displayin the product, we can easily understand how it hap-pened to come about. The style at the beginning had many good features,but in process of time came that phase of it to whichhas been attached the appellation Rococo. Besidesrocks and shells as decorative features, are grottos,roses, cornucopias, vases with spilling contents, scrolls,weeds, sprawling accanthus, all seemingly thrown to-gether haphazard. Everything evidently was gristthat came to the decorative mill. In some of the decor-ation one is reminded of plant growth of a rank kind;vegitation that springs into plenitude from the greenscum of stagnant pools. The one idea of the decoratorseems to have been to get effect through deep shadowand high light. The depth in shell and rock supplied. Fig. A. shade and shadow, the prominences, brilliant points oflight. Here was multitudinous detail, ridged andbroken outlines in constant succession, the wholeforming an aspect richness of effect. When we cometo the style that prevailed in the latter part of thereign (now known as the rococo) we find all formaltreatment eschewed and symmetrical arrangement ofnot the smallest account; in fact a thing to be have the two sides of an object to entirely differwas the aim. Chatearoux was mistress of the Kingin 1744. Pompadour in 1764, Dubany until 1774, andeach left impression of taste—from an individual pointof view—on the furniture and decoration of the reign. A process belonging to this time, called after theinventor Veinis-Martin, had great vogue, lie was acarriage painter. His varnish—a transparent lac—waspossibly derived from Japan. The work associatedwith his name is to be found in the shape of fans, snuffboxes, needle cases, as
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