. Art crafts for amateurs . e. This traditional art,with its well-recognised formulae, shackles us, preventing allfree movement; and even the French, who are more hide-bound by tradition than we are, are beginning to see thatthis is fatal to progress and virility. The consequence is No. 82.—Simple Border, founded on the Oak. Only the simplestfacts of the plant are taken, while the stem is treated as pure orna- that in the Paris Exhibition some cf the most interestingdepartures are to be found in that group of French crafts-men who have gone so far as to quit Paris and settle in theprovinces. T
. Art crafts for amateurs . e. This traditional art,with its well-recognised formulae, shackles us, preventing allfree movement; and even the French, who are more hide-bound by tradition than we are, are beginning to see thatthis is fatal to progress and virility. The consequence is No. 82.—Simple Border, founded on the Oak. Only the simplestfacts of the plant are taken, while the stem is treated as pure orna- that in the Paris Exhibition some cf the most interestingdepartures are to be found in that group of French crafts-men who have gone so far as to quit Paris and settle in theprovinces. The Wardrobe, No. 80, is an example of thenew spirit that is abroad, and those readers who did not goto the Exhibition itself should refer to the Extra ParisNumber of The Art Journal, in which examples of themodern movement on the Continent may be seen. In some designs, No. 81 for instance, I purposely workon traditional lines, because I wish to give the student aswide a choice of subject as possible ; but where I do so, I. ment. 122 ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. try to import certain personal touches into the schemethough I must admit I find it very difficult to do this wherethe motifs are so well known as in this so-called FrenchRenaissance work. Professional designers are too often compelled to dowork in the style of such-and-such a period, because,having to earn their living, they have no choice but to dowhat they are paid for doing ; but I think I am speakingfor most of them when I say that they would far preferbeing asked to make an original design, freshness oftreatment being the only condition imposed. The amateur
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