They show the artist's allegiance to the great decorations of the Renaissance in many quaint ways of filling out the background spaces by puttos holding tablets, simple bits of architecture, and conventionalized trees.
"The Art of the Exposition"
Eugen Neuhaus
Louis Ell The cherry-orchard scene was effectively produced on a small stage by a blue-green back-drop with a single conventionalized cherry-branch painted across it, and two three-leaved screens masking the wings, painted in blue-green with a spray of cherry blossoms.
"King Arthur's Socks and Other Village Plays"
Floyd Dell
In the Quiangan area a highly conventionalized wood-carving art has developed - beautiful eating spoons with figures of men and women carved on the handles and food bowls cut in animal figures are everywhere found; while in Bontoc only the most crude and artless wood carving is made.
"The Bontoc Igorot"
Albert Ernest Jenks