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On Character “To be interesting, ornamentation should represent objects which remind us of poetic ideas” for an object to be beautiful, “it is necessary that its form contain nothing superfluous, but only the material conditions which make it useful: we must take into account both the material and the use which will be made of it.” “the most important requirement for an object that is to be considered beautiful is that it fulfill the purpose for which it is destined” the character of a work of art “the definition of its esthetic-moral condition.” Adding that “it is also the criterion for ornamentation which should reveal the form that is dictated solely by the complete satisfaction of some need.” He felt that public objects should be se