Ornament

Dictionary entry

1. Maximalism recurring / Style

   Layers quantity, color and pattern without fear, making excess itself the richness.

2. Pattern and Decoration 1975–1985 / Style

   A movement that argued head-on with modernism's premise that ornament is inferior. It brought the repetitions of Islamic geometry, quilts, wallpaper and textiles onto large canvases and placed women's handwork and non-Western idioms at the centre of art. The starting point for treating decoration as a political question.

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