The openness shows off the classic features of Art Nouveau architecture -- delicate wrought-iron columns, lampposts and railings.
But what got me hooked were visits to museums, notably the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and seeing crucial features of art that didn't come through in reproduction.
There are so many features of art that can only be appreciated in its actual presence: the weight, scale, even smell of art is absent from a digital scan, however magnificent.
The characteristic features of Art Deco reflect admiration for the modernity of the machine and for the inherent design qualities of machine-made objects e.g., relative simplicity, planarity, symmetry, and unvaried repetition of elements.
In this programme the visual features of art, architecture and furniture by Seurat, Turner, Millais, Holman Hunt, William Morris, anonymous medieval masons and mosaicists, Renaissance architects, a modern Chinese photographer and the 16th-century Venetian painter Veronese were all starting points for mostly quite lengthy discussions and analysis.
Due to the fact that the greatest emotional comfort provided by high aesthetic level of design objects in the work are discussed features of art design, aimed at the creation of objects in which artistic and aesthetic principles dominates over utilitarian and pragmatic principles.
Another feature of Art Projects is that they have strong connections with community revitalization in a Shrinking Society.
The movement of artworks from private collections into museums has been a dominant feature of art collecting ever since.
Possibly the one indisputably defining feature of art in our own time is its shape-shifting inclusiveness.
Another decisive feature of art is the way in which it increases our potential for invention.
All these incongruities seem to point of course to that fundamental feature of art we have called "earth", as unavailability, opacity and retraction.
