NEW PICTURE MODES

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 96, 17 January 1933, Page 4

NEW PICTURE MODES

A Change With the Times There was a time when pictures were frankly used as wallpaper, and that portion of a wall which was not covered by the contents of a gilt frame was considered bare and unhomely. To-day the position is reversed, and it is wallpaper or its equivalent which is converted into pictures or their equivalent -—a bright patch of colour —set infrequently on the wall. Plain papers are selected and are used as though they were coloured glass. A sky, a wood, a field, may be cut out in purple, green, and brown, and then pasted together. Sometimes the stained-glass convention is followed even more closely, and the pieces are lixed with little pieces of metal or an occasional spangle, used as though it were a pinbead. With the great simplification of the painting convention, these blank colours skilfully set together make very effective concentration points in the room.

Another older convention has been revived in the same interest. This is painting on glass, fortified by pieces of metal paper. The subjects are treated very quaintly, and the glass, metal, and colour all together give a deep, .rich tone. While all these efforts may be regarded as being as temporary as, say. a cushion-cover, amusing subjects are taken. Playing, cards, elaborated and enlarged, may be used for a series, and amusing results may be obtained by observing the connection between the various-cards. This provides a good deal of colour, and the strict convention makes for considerable exercise of ingenuity. Pictures are made thus for the nursery and for the less formal rooms of an occasional house.