International studio (27.1905/1906(1906))

The IVkippte School of Art

INTERIOR OF MR. WHIPPLE’S STUDIO

reasons for appearances. Where the foundation of a
visual image can be understood tliey are quick to
undertake the search. But it is quite possible to
learn the structure of the foot without being able
to use this knowledge in drawing. And the im-
portant difficulty that such a synthetic method of
instruction recognises is that this inability to make
use of knowledge may afflict any one. It is not
simply that a clerk in a bank who should study the
anatomy of the foot might be in no way able to
draw the foot, but that a Student of drawing who
can draw the foot, let us say, passably well from
the cast or from life, may fill his head full of names
of bones without in any way improving his technical
powers. This is the danger that confronts the
deliberate study of anatomy as a separate subject.

Mr. Whipple’s remedy is to avoid the formal study
and supply the training personally to his pupils
in the course of their actual work and as point by
point they meet the practical need of such knowl-
edge.
So many students at present desire to train
themselves for illustrative work that in addition
to the life classes a dass in illustration is of course
essential. This school is fortunate in obtaining
the Services of Howard Chandler Christy, whose
work is as well known as his practise in all the
technical requirements, which are many and im-
portant, is thorough.
Arrangements are also being made for a dass in
arc.hitecture to be conducted by George A. Mat-
thews.

LXXX