International studio (47.1912)

A Unique School Art Exhibit


THREE STUDIES IN COSTUME DESIGN ILLUSTRATING STYLES AND PERSONALITIES
MIDDLE DESIGN BY HELEN CHITTY—OTHER TWO DESIGNS BY ROBERT KALLOCK

A UNIQUE SCHOOL ART EXHIBIT
Unique among the art exhibits this
k season was that of the New York

School of Fine and Applied Art, just
closed. The school proposed to show in its work,
its policy and its attitude toward art instruction
what the public need seems to require.
The exhibit, in many ways remarkable when the
fact that nearly all the work shown was done by
first and second-year students is taken into con-
sideration, consisted of drawings and paintings,
illustration, design, the various crafts, interior
decoration, commercial advertising, costume de-
sign and other art industries nearest the vital
interests of the public in general.
It is the purpose of the school to foster and de-
velop, by daily individual instruction, the spirit of
the fine arts, so called, in drawing and painting,
and to give the student a technique in a year or
two that will enable him to express his ideas with
accuracy and beauty as a result.
The policy of the school in the department of
the so-called applied arts, or art as it relates to
industry, was shown most clearly in the depart-
ments of interior decoration, commercial adver-
tising and costume illustration and design. That
art is an essential quality with the elements of fit-
ness and beauty paramount in the expression was

clearly shown in this exhibit. It is the aim of the
school to organize and develop the principles of
color, harmony of form arrangement and of line
placing, so that they may be applied by the worker

POSTER BY JOSEPHINE BELL


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