International studio (39.1909/1910(1910))

Art School Notes

QLASS WARE DESIGNED AND PRODUCED AT THE KACHSC1IOLB FUR GlASINDUSTRIR AT HAIDA, BOHEMIA

One of the first of these reforms was attempted at the Academy drew such crowds that people

more than a century ago, when the schools were fought to get in, and officers from Bow Street had to

crowded with young aspirants for artistic fame, be stationed at the door to keep out the disorderly

Unfortunately their general standard was so low element. Those were the addresses of Sir Anthony

that the Academicians ordered each of them to Carlisle, and the crowds were drawn to Somerset

submit anew an example of his drawing. As the House not by the merits of the lecturer but by

consequence of this re-examination some of the extraneous attractions. Sir Anthony, who used to

indents were degraded from the life school to lecture in full Court dress, with lace ruffles, and

th*t of the antique, and others turned out alto- a bagwig, made a point always of providing some

Sether. The treatment was so drastic that for a novelty that would be sure of attracting the town.

tlrne the schools were almost deserted, and an artist Once, to display the muscles in action, he had a

0 worked at the Academy in those stormy days squad of eight nude Life Guardsmen going through
as recorded that more than once he was the only the sword exercise, and again a troupe of Chinese

h

Pe«on in the life class with the exception of the jugglers displaying their agility. Mr. Thomson in

Visitor and the model. Among the more important lecturing for artists and students confines himself,

reforms of late years at the Academy were the properly enough, to the bones and muscles that

change b the status of the women students, who, affect the structure and the external forms but

since 1903, have worked on level terms with the Sir Anthony loved to go deeper and to horrify his

mcn, and the new law, made in 1905, on the audience with pitiful remnants of humanity handed

m°t'on of Sir George Frampton, which grants round on dinner plates. Hazlitt when he attended

^mission to the schools without examination to one of these lectures had a hard struggle to keep

Gonial students in painting and sculpture who himself from fainting. The dates of the Academy

have been awarded travelling studentships for the addresses on painting, sculpture and architecture

PWpose of studying art in Europe. have not yet been announced, but their delivery

_ will probably commence immediately alter the

Mr. Arthur Thomson, Professor of Anatomy at Christmas holidays. W. 1. W.
e Koyal Academy, will give this autumn a series

0f twelve addresses at Burlington House, com- ¥ ¥ AIDA, BOl 1 liMIA.-Two illustrations

me»cing on the 20th inst., at four o'clock. The I-1 are here given showing exar

at*tomy addresses, in common with the other , \ glass ware designed and produced

Wi"ter lectures at the Academy, are open to all the 1 at the Kachschule fur Glasmdustne at

e*nibitors of last year at Burlington House, and Haida, a small town of some 7,000 inhabitants,

Poetically to any artist who cares to take a little where glassmaking has been the staple industry for

tr°uble to obtain a ticket. They do not, however, a very long period. In connection with this in-

"*«*» as large an audience as they deserve. Yet dustry the school, which, like most of the Each-

there have been times when the anatomy lectures schulen in various parts of the Austrian empire,

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