. Art crafts for amateurs . wever much you may ornamentalisecertain features of the plant. If you depart from nature, be surethat you gain thereby. WOOD CARVING. 23 tradition. The examples are so characteristic as well asexcellent in themselves that that was quite sufficient reasonto warrant me giving them had I no other. While a studyof Gothic will give our work robustness, virility, and a feel-ing for nature, a study say of the screen by Grinling Gib-bons—a frag-ment of which Igive a sketch ofin No. 10—willteach us graceand balance, afeeling forcurves and in-genuity in theinterweaving ofscro
. Art crafts for amateurs . wever much you may ornamentalisecertain features of the plant. If you depart from nature, be surethat you gain thereby. WOOD CARVING. 23 tradition. The examples are so characteristic as well asexcellent in themselves that that was quite sufficient reasonto warrant me giving them had I no other. While a studyof Gothic will give our work robustness, virility, and a feel-ing for nature, a study say of the screen by Grinling Gib-bons—a frag-ment of which Igive a sketch ofin No. 10—willteach us graceand balance, afeeling forcurves and in-genuity in theinterweaving ofscrolls; whilethe original atOxford will re-veal to us thepossibilities ofwood under thehands of acraftsman whocould hold agouge with askill and un-hesitating assurance—a contemptuous indifference—whichmakes him one of the greatest of English carvers. Yetbecause much of Gibbons work is of the papery finickingorder, best styled rococo, some present-day craftsmen pre-tend to see nothing but what is bad in it. There may be. Nc. 12.—Carved Lamp Bracket, treated withdecorative adaptation of the apple in lowrelief. The stems are highly ornamen-talised, but in other respects nature isfollowed. 24 ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. no further any artistic salvation in the acanthus leaf indesign, all that that mine could yield having been workedout until no ore remains for us, but it is a wilful narrowingof our sympathies to shut out from our purview the work ofsuch a genius as this great seventeenth-century two fragments, No. 8, from the pulpit in the no-
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