Painted Decoration
The technical means of obtaining the interest of surfaces is, of course, incidental to the process involved. If the decoration be the result of painting, the design is free and untrammelled by any other than purely æsthetic conditions. Such, for instance, as the desirable recognition of surface, and the pattern sense suggested by recurrence, if a decorative rather than a pictorial effect is desired.
When the decorations consist of ornament, wholly or partly, they are occasionally rendered in a conventional manner, based upon the appearance of Relief, as in the Pompeian wall decorations and the painted work of the Italian Renaissance. There is ample precedent for this treatment in traditional painted decoration, but deliberate attempts at realistic effects are not only undesirable but to be deplored.
The interest in Painted Decoration, apart from colour, design or subject, would be that of the individual manifestation of the designer and painter.