![]() In the "system of the labyrinth," the void is cancelled out. In the "system of the series," the void is maintained through a system composed of discontinuous elements sharply outlined, with a stable and symmetrical space around them that protects them against unforeseen metamorphosis. 298.)įocillon describes two attitudes towards the background, or void. Ornament, in general, gave evidence to the creativity and the beauty of the cosmic order, just as the fruits and flowers that if often imitated were the products and finery of nature." ("Architecture, Science, Technology and the Virtual Realm" in Architecture and the Sciences, p. "like order and proportion, ornament expressed the fundamental regularity of the universe, and, above all, its fecundity. It is "the blossoming of a force that has nothing more to achieve." (p.181) Antoine Picon echoes this association of ornament with potency. 66) For Heinrich Wölfflin, ornament is an epression of an excessive force of form. Not only does it exist in and of itself, but it also shapes its own environment - to which it imparts form." (Henri Focillon, The Life of Forms in Art, p. ![]() ![]() "Ornament shapes, straightens and stabilizes the bare arid field on which it is inscribed.
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