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Mr. Bellery-Desfoiitaines. 
by the three French artists Dufrene, Benedictus and Bellery- 
Desfontaines, will illustrate well how dilTerently the same ob- 
ject will look to different artists' eyes — ^yet all tell the same 
fundamental truths. The different styles of conventionahza- 
tion of each artist show still more clearly how unnecessary it is 
to copy others' ideas to attain artistic results. It is this origi- 
nality in seeing things that proclaims the artist. 
It would, of course, be preferable, if each designer could 
make his own study of the insect, but the time of year forbids, 
so, in order not to copy too closely the ideas of others he will 
have to studj^ all of these drawings and select the forms that 
appeal most to his sense of beauty and fitness, making his own 
conventionalization, profiting by the examples before him with- 
out servile imitation. It is interesting to note how M. Dufrene 
has made use of the leg and the head as motifs in wall paper 
patterns. " Everything is fish that comes to his net." Bellery- 
Desfontaines uses his motif in a semi-natural manner, -while 
Benedictus skeletonizes his stibject with admirable success. 
Make your choice of these or other methods of conven- 
tionalization, " Every road leads to Rome." 
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