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when floral design first emerged as an art form, emphasis focused on?
A. the arrangement of several varieties of flowers in a tight bunch, or mass.
B. creating flowers from nonfloral materials.
C. light, airy and romatic arrangements.
D. using flowers in their natural state and shape.
I think it's D but I just wanted to check.
Floral design as an art form is just beginning to come of age. To date, it has not been recorded in a comprehensive way. There are specific instances of recording, such as in the schools of Ikebana, but as a general subject as it pertains to the culture of the world, documentation has not yet happened. The first step to learning to arrange flowers is to take the time to sort out what is available in styles, plant materials, etc. and find where the differences lie. You need to move towards uncomplicating what most people deal with in a complicated manner. Taking the time to sort through will make flower arranging much simpler and a whole lot more fun.
The world enjoys three basic styles of floral design, all of which have developed into art forms. They are Ikebana, Continental and Western. Generally speaking, you can categorize them as follows; Ikebana has its roots in the orient and is based on line, form and sparseness of materials. Much of Ikebana has the silhouette of an asymmetrical triangle. Continental has it's roots in Europe and is the exact opposite of Ikebana. It is a mixture of many kinds of material, many colors and many textures without obvious line. Its silhouette is circular. Western is a combination of the two, adopting the line and form of Ikebana and the Continental use of more materials. The United States became the melting pot of floral design as it did many other things. It is good to note that Western emerged into being in the mid-1940's whereas the other two have been recorded for centuries. As Americans, we liked the art of Ikebana and the abundance of continental. From the commercial floral design standpoint, we are interested in the American way (the quickest, easiest way to accomplish the best results) to still end up with an artistically acceptable design. In Ikebana, we hear the terms shin, soe and tai, sometime called heaven, man and earth. These lines are often curved and complicated, but most of all they are time consuming. Therefore, in Western style, we adopted the primary, secondary and tertiary of straight lines. The feeling of Do (Ikebana) or focal point was also appealing. To avoid interruption in rhythm, all stems must radiate from the focal point to the lip or the top of the container instead of above the lip as they do in Ikebana – the container in Western is no linger an integral part of the design as it is in Ikebana. Making the lines straight, and moving the focal point, made the construction of the design much simpler and therefore faster. Westerners also liked the abundant look of Continental but not the mixture of so many materials, so we adopted using more numbers but not such a variety. Most Western design is done with one or two kinds of material and most certainly not more than four. We can create an asymmetrical background (silhouette) using primary, secondary and tertiary lines of 10 or 12 flowers of the same kind and color (perhaps pink gladiolus). Across that pink background, we can place a contrasting flower (perhaps red carnations) in a diagonal line. We can finish the design with a filler flower or foliage. In this way, we can get both the artistry of Ikebana and the abundance of Continental in a quick and easy construction.
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