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.