It is important to understand its influence as an ideal amongst the modernist avant-garde . Originality has come to be de-emphasized with increased uses of photography , video , and appropriation , along with other reproductive technique . All profound original art looks ugly at first. See Abstract Expressionism . Also see after , artist , counterfeit , creativity , derived image , ersatz , forgery , genius , new , and simulacrum .
Ormolu is cast and chiseled , then finished with gold leaf.
The height of its use was as part of Empire style furnishings in the early nineteenth century. This malachite, mined on lands belonging to the Demidoff family in Russia, was cut into small, thin pieces, and then joined together as a veneer. Prince Nicholas Demidoff commisioned Thomire to produce this monumental vase to furnish his Florentine palazzo and to advertise his family's wealth. Also see fire gilding , gilding , and horology . Something that decorates , adorns, or embellishes.