DOI Heft:
No. 90 (August, 1904)
DOI Artikel:Scott, E. N.: Co-ordinated art education at Burslem
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.26962#0177
Art Education at Bur stem
CUP AND SAUCER DECORATED IN GOLD PASTE
BY F. MOORE GORDON
material for which they are intended. Good
examples of pottery, designed and executed by
students of the School of Art, together with a
few specimens of elementary work, are included
in the illustrations.
Probably there is no larger field for improved
design than in connection with the production of
pottery. Under the influence of architects of the
modern school, tile designs have reached a higher
standard of merit than heretofore; but in the
decoration of articles of utility there are abundant
opportunities for advancement. The public have
yet to learn that the artistic is not to be discovered
in the traditional patterns, which combine tasteless
elaboration, incongruous masses of ornament, and
crudities of colour; and they have yet to under-
stand that pictorial renderings of nature, however
beautiful, are misplaced by their application to useful
PORTION OF BREAKFAST SET DECORATED IN GOLD PASTE
BY ARTHUR SCOTT
T35
of work at the School of Art. There he is taught,
first and foremost, to become a good draughtsman,
and with a sound knowledge of the laws of orna-
ment he is encouraged to originally apply that
accomplishment to decorative purposes. Naturally
the requirements of the potting industry formulate,
in some degree, the nature of the w'ork to be
performed, and every facility is provided by the
education authority, with the co-operation of the
manufacturers, for the execution of designs in the
pottery. When the public have realised that good
design is the decorative arrangement which fulfils
the laws of ornament, and when they have learnt
to discriminate between the artistic and the
inartistic, then there will be created a demand
which efficient systems of art education will assist
in supplying.
PLATE
BY S. TUSHINGHAM
CUP AND SAUCER DECORATED IN GOLD PASTE
BY F. MOORE GORDON
material for which they are intended. Good
examples of pottery, designed and executed by
students of the School of Art, together with a
few specimens of elementary work, are included
in the illustrations.
Probably there is no larger field for improved
design than in connection with the production of
pottery. Under the influence of architects of the
modern school, tile designs have reached a higher
standard of merit than heretofore; but in the
decoration of articles of utility there are abundant
opportunities for advancement. The public have
yet to learn that the artistic is not to be discovered
in the traditional patterns, which combine tasteless
elaboration, incongruous masses of ornament, and
crudities of colour; and they have yet to under-
stand that pictorial renderings of nature, however
beautiful, are misplaced by their application to useful
PORTION OF BREAKFAST SET DECORATED IN GOLD PASTE
BY ARTHUR SCOTT
T35
of work at the School of Art. There he is taught,
first and foremost, to become a good draughtsman,
and with a sound knowledge of the laws of orna-
ment he is encouraged to originally apply that
accomplishment to decorative purposes. Naturally
the requirements of the potting industry formulate,
in some degree, the nature of the w'ork to be
performed, and every facility is provided by the
education authority, with the co-operation of the
manufacturers, for the execution of designs in the
pottery. When the public have realised that good
design is the decorative arrangement which fulfils
the laws of ornament, and when they have learnt
to discriminate between the artistic and the
inartistic, then there will be created a demand
which efficient systems of art education will assist
in supplying.
PLATE
BY S. TUSHINGHAM