s. The source of inspiration of the Japanese who
have commercialized and cheapened it in everything save wood-block
cutting and printing.

CLASSIC--The period of early Greece and Rome.

COLONIAL (Art)--Found in the printing and other applied design of the
early American colonies and during the first years of the American
Republic. Derived from England and sometimes called "Georgian."

COLOR--The kind of light reflected by a surface.

CONCEPTION--The process of forming an idea or scheme.

DECORATION--Any thing or group of things that embellishes or adorns.

DESIGN (In general)--An arrangement of forms or colors, or both,
intended to be executed in hard substances or pliable material or to be
applied to a fabric or other surface for ornament.

(In printing)--The arrangement of masses, lines, and dots to secure the
qualities of beauty, and fitness.

(Specific)--"A design": any piece of work into which the elements of
design have been incorporated.

EGYPTIAN (Art)--Includes the period of art activity in Egypt dating from
about 4000 B.C. through successive steps to 500 B.C. It was highly
conventionalized, richly decorated, making use of material forms
interpreted with vigorous color. In architecture its chief
characteristic was durability.

ESTHETIC--Pertaining to beauty as manifested in the fine arts. "The
esthetic imagination differs from the scientific.... The difference is
seen in the fact that the end is no longer knowledge but beauty."

ECCLESIASTICAL (Style)--That which characterized the books and
manuscripts of the early churches, usually in black text letter forms
with elaborate ornamentation and illumination.

GEOMETRICAL (Design)--Based upon spots, bands, or all-over patterns made
up of straight and curved lines developed geometrically.

GEORGIAN (Period)--Included the English and Colonial American design of
the 17th and 18th centuries. Similar to "Colonial."

GOTHIC (Art)--Developed in the architecture and applied design in Europe
from 1200 A.D. to 1500 A.D. Characterized by vertical lines, pointed
arches, and decorative material based directly upon nature.

GREEK (Design)--That of early Greece, dated from about 620 B.C. to about
350 B.C., developed under the influence of Egypt and Assyria but rising
far above either in purity and expression. "The Greek artisan had the
unerring taste of the artist and sought his inspiration from the same
sources."

HARMONY (In art)--A state of completeness in t