DOI issue:
No. 90 (August, 1904)
DOI article:Scott, E. N.: Co-ordinated art education at Burslem
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.26962#0176
Art Education at Burst'em
PLATE BY ROBERT MIDWINTER
Standards I. to IV. are devoted to freehand draw-
ing with brush and pencil, colour work, scale-
drawing, ruler work, object and memory drawing,
and pattern-forming. With regard to the latter,
it is important to observe that a freehand copy is
first drawn, great attention being paid to correct
proportion, and the example being then applied,
chiefly by means of repetition, to fill various shapes.
In Standards V., VI., and VII. brush drawing,
model drawing, lettering, and plant drawing from
CUP AND SAUCER DECORATED TN GOLD PASTE
BY ARTHUR SCOTT
the flat and from photographs, are encouraged;
whilst great attention is paid to the application of
plant drawing and geometry to pattern-forming.
A few years ago the idea of a primary school
student using the brush as a means of expressing
form, utilising colour for the purpose of indicat-
ing masses, and applying simple units to the
making of patterns, would have been ridiculed;
but the results have surprised even the most opti-
mistic, especially in the case of the upper standards,
where the scholar’s inventive faculty becomes more
developed.
By the time the scholar leaves the primary school
he has therefore obtained a good knowledge of
elementary draughtsmanship, he has learnt some-
PLATE ' BY HENRY ALLEN
thing of colour and colour harmony, and he has
developed to a considerable degree the faculties of
pattern forming. From the elementary school the
student passes on to the evening continuation
classes, where the work of the primary school is
developed and extended, and from these classes
promising scholars are given every opportunity to
continue their studies at the Wedgwood Institute
School of Art. Thirty scholarships, tenable for
three years at the latter institution, are annually
offered, and it may be here mentioned as a note-
worthy fact that students holding these scholar-
ships have been recipients of high awards in the
National Competition of Schools of Art.
Having received a sound preliminary training,
the student thus enters upon the advanced forms
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PLATE BY ROBERT MIDWINTER
Standards I. to IV. are devoted to freehand draw-
ing with brush and pencil, colour work, scale-
drawing, ruler work, object and memory drawing,
and pattern-forming. With regard to the latter,
it is important to observe that a freehand copy is
first drawn, great attention being paid to correct
proportion, and the example being then applied,
chiefly by means of repetition, to fill various shapes.
In Standards V., VI., and VII. brush drawing,
model drawing, lettering, and plant drawing from
CUP AND SAUCER DECORATED TN GOLD PASTE
BY ARTHUR SCOTT
the flat and from photographs, are encouraged;
whilst great attention is paid to the application of
plant drawing and geometry to pattern-forming.
A few years ago the idea of a primary school
student using the brush as a means of expressing
form, utilising colour for the purpose of indicat-
ing masses, and applying simple units to the
making of patterns, would have been ridiculed;
but the results have surprised even the most opti-
mistic, especially in the case of the upper standards,
where the scholar’s inventive faculty becomes more
developed.
By the time the scholar leaves the primary school
he has therefore obtained a good knowledge of
elementary draughtsmanship, he has learnt some-
PLATE ' BY HENRY ALLEN
thing of colour and colour harmony, and he has
developed to a considerable degree the faculties of
pattern forming. From the elementary school the
student passes on to the evening continuation
classes, where the work of the primary school is
developed and extended, and from these classes
promising scholars are given every opportunity to
continue their studies at the Wedgwood Institute
School of Art. Thirty scholarships, tenable for
three years at the latter institution, are annually
offered, and it may be here mentioned as a note-
worthy fact that students holding these scholar-
ships have been recipients of high awards in the
National Competition of Schools of Art.
Having received a sound preliminary training,
the student thus enters upon the advanced forms
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