Studio: international art (5.1895)

Manchester School of Art

scope for the display of the knowledge which has recognition of the necessity of giving to colour corn-
been acquired not merely in the two immediately bination and arrangement something of the same
preceding stages, but, as it includes also " study of close attention which is demanded for details of
printers' ornaments, the form of letters and type, Art practice of scarcely as great value. It stands

apart from the other items of Mr. Crane's
table of " Suggestions," and claims there-
:' "1 ■ fore independent consideration. It is the

M >- crowning exercise of his course, and com-

I pletes the system of study which he pre-

/ ' ': scribes. He defines the method by which

/ | he wishes the sense of colour, trained by

close examination of Nature's combina-
&&? tions and effects, to be turned to account

i—, in artistic production, and points out the
/ y manner in which students should accustom
themselves to the necessary process of
- translation, by setting as problems to be

solved the arrangement of " patterns and

J.. X schemes of decoration to be worked out in

a given number of colours or given selected
tints and harmonies." In this, as in all his
other suggestions, he keeps in mind what
he holds to be the main purpose of the
* ; V education offered to the Art student, " to

\ / / emphasise the essential relation of neces-

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; j | sary units throughout all the branches of

Art," while at the same time "strengthen-
S v mg trie designing faculty, and cultivating

. ; c • . invention and observation ; " in a word, to
teach him that all forms of Art have in
Nature their one common origin, and that

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chalk drawing from life. study of movement
by h. osporat

and the decorative use of inscriptions," in the more
elementary exercises as well; and therefore takes
the young artist over nearly the whole of the ground
covered by his course of study from the very
beginning.

The last section of all, " Study of Colour Har-
monies derived from Nature, as in birds' plumage,

wers, &c," is especially important in view of the silhouette of antique figure

strange fact that in few schools is there any official by w. b. watson

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