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Title: Art crafts for amateurs
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Miller, Fred, decorative artist
Subjects: Decorative arts Decoration and ornament
Publisher: New York, London, Truslove, Hanson & Comba, Ld.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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ve exalted the ego above alltradition and that adherence to precedent which so checksall original impulse, and to the amateur I say emphatically,let your work be yourself: it is better that it should bethat, and even rococ o, than very chaste and in perfectstyle, but a shadow of some one else. I am no purist in the matter of style. Learn of everyone, study in all schools, but copy no one. We are con-stantly having a critic starting up and claiming his one wayof looking at nature and rendering his impressions as theway. There is no one way : there are at least, according toRudyard Kipling, nine-and-sixty. I am Gothic in sentiment,and for many years was blinded to the work which for con-venience is grouped under the head of Renaissance. Yetthe three old examples of wood carving I give are all of thelatter school, and I have done this with intention, for so WOOD CARVING. 2 I much amateur carving is merely a servile copy of Gothicwork wherein the letter is seen, the spirit having escaped,
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No. 10.—Tnis is a rough sketch of a portion of the carved panelsforming the Screen in Trinity College, Oxford. The workmanshipis as fine as anything I know, and the whole being pierced, has alight and elegant appearance which is delightful. The design isvery intricate, but the ingenuity with which the curves play intoeach other evinces much skill and resource. The wreaths andfestoons are good instances of the seventeenth-century conceits so often met with in the decoration of the time. The introductionof angels heads gives a human interest to the work. that it appeared likely to lead to more useful ends to examinethe work which is considered to be opposed to the Gothic 22 ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS.

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