William M. Ivins has touched on the subject of ornament and its importance to the creation of art/design. Ivins states many things in this article that can be applied to today's art scene. Now a days we constantly hear of artists commenting on innovation and originality however the truth is that everything is derived from something. It is hard to create something that has never been done before unless no one has given the original creator credit.
Ornaments are used as a technical language that adds beauty. Since such designs have already been given meaning, as artists we can only interpret these ornaments into our own creation. In the article Ivin referred to music as a way to explain ornaments in art. I interpreted it as how each note comes together to create a song and how words are put together to create a message. If you break it down each note and each word has already been predetermined by its creator. As humans we can only associate these ornaments into context to fit the message we want to convey.
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