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licka, had the effect of changing completely
the artistic direction of the movement, and
of causing the real revival to which pre-
vious reference has been made.


  Breaking resolutely and completely with
Renascence designs, Professor Hrdlicka
made a return to Nature, gaining from her
inexhaustible storehouse new elements full


of grace and character, and thereby effect-
ing a revolution in an art circumscribed by
precedent. Like Ren6 Lalique in the gold-
smith's and jeweler's art, M. Hrdlicka


sought his decorative motifs in the fields
and along the highways: poppies and the
light umbels of weeds, thistles, wild roses,
nettles and convolvuli, sometimes even con-
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