System of Architectural Ornament, A |
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| Name of Work | System of Architectural Ornament, A | ||||||
| Production Date | 1922 | ||||||
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| Media Types | paper and pencil | ||||||
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Description
Detailed series of sketches of ornamental patterns for buildings, and their genesis, intended to show the complexity and organic simplicity of such a style of ornament. The drawings are a vast variety of visual patterns that share a rough relation to some Art Nouveau designs, because of its abstraction from organic floral and plant forms. But the genius of Sullivan's system of ornament is that this system is a rich abstraction of organic forms, and is not a literal use of organic forms as much Art Nouveau often does.
Theme
Emotional Sum or Sense-of-life
The world is a place of infinite, ordered, geometric, fluid possibilities.
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