DOI Heft:
No. 11 (February, 1894)
DOI Artikel:The Birmingham Municipal School of Art, with illustrations of its students' work, II.
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17189#0185
The Birmingham Municipal School of Art
important volume from which we have quoted,shows they have elected to work under, but a natural
that he is interested keenly and with sober energy deficiency in their artistic temperament,
in all stages of his pupils' career; not merely the It is not possible to go into the various classes
crowning achievement, but the superstructure, the of industrial art taught and actively practised. In
FROM A PANEL IN CARVED PLASTER, BY GEORGE CAVE FRAN'CE
base, the first foundation, all seem in turn the stained glass we are able to illustrate an admirable
most important as he follows the course of specimen of a student's work, one of many that
technical education in the arts. Addressed as it show evidence of the true principles which govern
may be primarily to teachers, the book is full of the craft being thoroughly grasped. In it we see
sound information which any one interested in the the lead tracery boldly accepted as an essential
applied arts might read to his ultimate advantage. feature of the design. So too, were it possible to
reproduce the colour, we should find the jewel-like
brilliancy which is peculiar to this material, the
only one in the arts which has actual light on its
palette. Whether or not the drawing be good, the
fancy graceful, the invention apt and spirited, is a
purely personal factor. What could be taught has
obviously been learned, and although in the present
case the artist gives evidence of strong natural
talent, in a less satisfactory example one finds the
same important truths grasped, although the power
from within
cannot be held
yet to have
mastered their
expression.
In jewellery,
a subject prac-
tically in har-
mony with local
industry, a very
A REPOUSSE FIRE-GUARD, DESIGNED AND EXECUTED genuine at_
BY FLORENCE STERN* . .
tempt is being
Given therefore a competent teacher who has also made to leave
exceptional tolerance, it is not surprising that we the mean device
have evidence of interest in all sorts of directions of commerce
beyond the ordinary routine. To say that all the and infuse into
inchoate attempts of some hundred students ex- the most de-
hibited even high promise, would be optimism; graded of
but after carefully inspecting the various depart- modern art-in-
ments one is driven to the conclusion, that if dustries some-
mute inglorious Miltons issue from the School, thing higher
their ineptitude will not be the fault of the system than a glorifica- c~ „
T73
A CARVED PLASTER VASE,
important volume from which we have quoted,shows they have elected to work under, but a natural
that he is interested keenly and with sober energy deficiency in their artistic temperament,
in all stages of his pupils' career; not merely the It is not possible to go into the various classes
crowning achievement, but the superstructure, the of industrial art taught and actively practised. In
FROM A PANEL IN CARVED PLASTER, BY GEORGE CAVE FRAN'CE
base, the first foundation, all seem in turn the stained glass we are able to illustrate an admirable
most important as he follows the course of specimen of a student's work, one of many that
technical education in the arts. Addressed as it show evidence of the true principles which govern
may be primarily to teachers, the book is full of the craft being thoroughly grasped. In it we see
sound information which any one interested in the the lead tracery boldly accepted as an essential
applied arts might read to his ultimate advantage. feature of the design. So too, were it possible to
reproduce the colour, we should find the jewel-like
brilliancy which is peculiar to this material, the
only one in the arts which has actual light on its
palette. Whether or not the drawing be good, the
fancy graceful, the invention apt and spirited, is a
purely personal factor. What could be taught has
obviously been learned, and although in the present
case the artist gives evidence of strong natural
talent, in a less satisfactory example one finds the
same important truths grasped, although the power
from within
cannot be held
yet to have
mastered their
expression.
In jewellery,
a subject prac-
tically in har-
mony with local
industry, a very
A REPOUSSE FIRE-GUARD, DESIGNED AND EXECUTED genuine at_
BY FLORENCE STERN* . .
tempt is being
Given therefore a competent teacher who has also made to leave
exceptional tolerance, it is not surprising that we the mean device
have evidence of interest in all sorts of directions of commerce
beyond the ordinary routine. To say that all the and infuse into
inchoate attempts of some hundred students ex- the most de-
hibited even high promise, would be optimism; graded of
but after carefully inspecting the various depart- modern art-in-
ments one is driven to the conclusion, that if dustries some-
mute inglorious Miltons issue from the School, thing higher
their ineptitude will not be the fault of the system than a glorifica- c~ „
T73
A CARVED PLASTER VASE,