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Title: Art-studies from nature, as applied to design : for the use of architects, designers, and manufacturers
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward), 1841-1909 Glaisher, James, 1809-1903 Mackie, Samuel Joseph Hunt, Robert, 1807-1887
Subjects: Decoration and ornament Nature (Aesthetics)
Publisher: London, Virtue & co.
Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
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Fig. 42. are always extremely simple in structure, some being made upentirely of the triangle, others of stars either six or eight rayed,singly or enclosed in a hexagon or octagon placed at intervals,and united by the more simple figure of the triangle, which,arranged in groups, serve as connecting links from one to the i6o ART-STUDIES FROM NATURE. other. The whole composition is rendered either sparkling ormonotonous according to the .employment of contrasted effects ora limited and uniform range of colour, and is admirably illus-trative of how the uniformity of the geometric figure may bebroken up and destroyed, its very character changed, indeed,according to the system of colouring adopted—an illustration
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Fig. 43- still further confirmed by a study of the varied and evolved designson a part of the encaustic pavement of the Byzantine Court at theCrystal Palace, which, described in shades of neutral tint through-out, upon a ground of the same colour, renders it difficult forthe eye to detect any variation of pattern. The specimens of Moresque mosaic with which we are ac- quainted differ somewhat in character from that which we havebeen considering. Based upon the square and its affinities, it isconstructed mainly with reference to the ratios of eight, four, andtwelve. It is less glittering in colour than the Byzantine, andattracts the eye more to masses than to fragments. The figures of snow are nearly allied to the principles of thesedecorative styles of art, based as they are upon a system ofangular geometry. We perceive, also, that the primitive base ofthe crystals is the leading figure of mosaic, founded, as most of itis, upon the hexagon and its combinations, though occasionallyadmi

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