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Ballet of Floral Silhouette
Gregor Lersch's description of formal-linear design as a choreography of individual plant silhouettes in conscious spatial relationship to one another.
“A ballet of floral silhouette: every material assigned its specific place, every line traversing consciously, every silhouette never interrupted but emphasised. Lersch's most evocative formulation of what formal-linear design demands.”
In formal-linear design, each material is assigned its specific location, area, height, and position depending on its ideal capability in the interplay with others. Lines never accidentally cross but traverse consciously and intensively, so that the effect of any given silhouette is never interrupted but rather emphasised. Light florals are emphasised at the top, heavy florals at the bottom. The varying space between different materials creates areas of artistic tension. As Lersch writes: this type of arrangement could almost be described as a ballet of floral silhouette. Every silhouette its place. Source: Lersch (310).
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