Owen Jones — Statement Trio | Grammar of Ornament Design Prints

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Owen Jones — Statement Trio | Grammar of Ornament Design PrintsOwen Jones (18091874) was the most influential design theorist of the 19th century the architect, designer, and writer whose Grammar of Ornament (1856) compiled the decorative vocabularies of 37 civilisations into a single encyclopaedic survey that transformed how Victorian designers understood pattern, colour, and ornament. His chromolithographic plates Islamic geometric, Chinese floral, Pompeian arabesque were the immediate source for the Arts &

he produced hundreds of prints of birds

His works epitomize shin-hanga's marriage of traditional ukiyo-e technique with modernist sensibility

His flower paintings and mythological subjects in pastel are works of extraordinary chromatic richness

reflection

The Mughal imperial atelier employed dozens of named master artists — Basawan

" Works from this series — Icarus

when precision and beauty were considered inseparable

Strawberry Thief

blending traditional ukiyo-e techniques with modernist sensibility

Nighthawks alone has become one of the most iconic images in American cultural history — a perfect encapsulation of urban loneliness that feels as contemporary now as it did in 1942

The Shahnameh (Book of Kings

Persian carpet

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