The decorative periods . THE FOUR PARAMOUNT INFLUENCESIN DECORATION ERUDITION, RELIGION, COMMERCIALISM, TEMPERAMENT ART is the visible expression of ones belief in the that is good in decoration is old ; what is new is notgood. New English is slang. The new in art is vulgar. One may have an individual method of conveying an idea,but the idea itself is old. Only the interpretation is new, and even that is the beginning art has always simulated nature. Long before the Greek fret was used the Chinese employeda similar form of design, suggested by the overlapping waves
The decorative periods . THE FOUR PARAMOUNT INFLUENCESIN DECORATION ERUDITION, RELIGION, COMMERCIALISM, TEMPERAMENT ART is the visible expression of ones belief in the that is good in decoration is old ; what is new is notgood. New English is slang. The new in art is vulgar. One may have an individual method of conveying an idea,but the idea itself is old. Only the interpretation is new, and even that is the beginning art has always simulated nature. Long before the Greek fret was used the Chinese employeda similar form of design, suggested by the overlapping waves ofthe sea. The Roman acanthus, the vetruvian scroll and fleur-de-lis came direct from the flora of Egypt. Every motif i theRenaissance period goes back in its origin 4,000 years to thepalm, papyrus and lotus, the growth and bloom of which had areligious significance to the people of the Nile. In no single instance can we find a motif in decoration thathas not been suggested by nature. Even animal life suggestedmotifs th
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