DOI issue:
No. 65 (August, 1898)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21969#0233
Studio-Talk
REPOUSSE WORK
BY PUPILS OF THE LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF APPLIED ART
[See Liverpool Studio- Talk)
occasional eddies of sightseers got diverted in that
direction and drifted there awhile, no attempt had
been made to utilise them for the more ceremonial
purposes of the day, and it was possible to judge
with some certainty of their adaptability to the
object for which they were designed. The whole
floor has been given up to art instruction with
intentions best explained by the words of the
official calendar: “ The curriculum has been ar-
ranged with a view to making the study of the
principles of art and the practice of drawing a
part of general education ; of training teachers ; of
giving assistance to those who intend to follow art
as a profession; but especially for promoting the
study of art as applied to handicrafts, manufactures,
and industries.” For these laudable purposes six
rooms have been set aside—an Antique room,
44 ft. by 36 ft.; a Life room, 24 ft. by 33 ft.; a
Modelling room and a Wood-carving room, each
18 ft. square; a Studio, 40 ft. by 20 ft., and a private
room reserved for the director, a post for which
the Council have been so fortunate as to secure
the services of Mr. Walter Crane. All the rooms
are of good height, with open-timbered roofs, dark
green panelled walls, and inlaid floors, and every-
thing that could be done to make them agreeable
to the eye has been done.
But the one essential point in a studio is the
light, and in this case it is not all that could be
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wished. Great bare spaces of plain glass are not,
it is true, decorative either from within or without,
but for purposes of studio work any avoidable
obstructions to the free entry of the daylight are
only to be deprecated. The Antique room, and to
a lesser extent the Life room, are further afflicted
with cross lights, and in the latter there is a south
window facing the larger north one, through which
in the afternoon the reflection from a red brick
wall without is thrown, producing a light and shade
upon the casts calculated to lash the young be-
ginner into madness. Nevertheless, in spite ot
these slight drawbacks, it cannot be doubted that,
under the able guidance of Mr. Morley Fletcher,
the schools will prove as great a boon to the
citizens of Reading as they are an honour to the
public spirit of the members of the Reading Uni-
versity Extension Association, to whom they mainly
owe their present prosperous condition and hand-
some home. M. B.
DUSSELDORF.—The seventh exhibi-
tion of the “St. Lucas” Art Club,
which consists of a dozen members,
all artists of the younger generation,
was again full of interest this year.
All the works displayed had the same peculiar
artistic tendency, notably those by Professor A.
Kampf, who displays numerous oil-paintings, water-
colours, lithographs, grisailles, drawings, &c., for
REPOUSSE WORK
BY PUPILS OF THE LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF APPLIED ART
[See Liverpool Studio- Talk)
occasional eddies of sightseers got diverted in that
direction and drifted there awhile, no attempt had
been made to utilise them for the more ceremonial
purposes of the day, and it was possible to judge
with some certainty of their adaptability to the
object for which they were designed. The whole
floor has been given up to art instruction with
intentions best explained by the words of the
official calendar: “ The curriculum has been ar-
ranged with a view to making the study of the
principles of art and the practice of drawing a
part of general education ; of training teachers ; of
giving assistance to those who intend to follow art
as a profession; but especially for promoting the
study of art as applied to handicrafts, manufactures,
and industries.” For these laudable purposes six
rooms have been set aside—an Antique room,
44 ft. by 36 ft.; a Life room, 24 ft. by 33 ft.; a
Modelling room and a Wood-carving room, each
18 ft. square; a Studio, 40 ft. by 20 ft., and a private
room reserved for the director, a post for which
the Council have been so fortunate as to secure
the services of Mr. Walter Crane. All the rooms
are of good height, with open-timbered roofs, dark
green panelled walls, and inlaid floors, and every-
thing that could be done to make them agreeable
to the eye has been done.
But the one essential point in a studio is the
light, and in this case it is not all that could be
202
wished. Great bare spaces of plain glass are not,
it is true, decorative either from within or without,
but for purposes of studio work any avoidable
obstructions to the free entry of the daylight are
only to be deprecated. The Antique room, and to
a lesser extent the Life room, are further afflicted
with cross lights, and in the latter there is a south
window facing the larger north one, through which
in the afternoon the reflection from a red brick
wall without is thrown, producing a light and shade
upon the casts calculated to lash the young be-
ginner into madness. Nevertheless, in spite ot
these slight drawbacks, it cannot be doubted that,
under the able guidance of Mr. Morley Fletcher,
the schools will prove as great a boon to the
citizens of Reading as they are an honour to the
public spirit of the members of the Reading Uni-
versity Extension Association, to whom they mainly
owe their present prosperous condition and hand-
some home. M. B.
DUSSELDORF.—The seventh exhibi-
tion of the “St. Lucas” Art Club,
which consists of a dozen members,
all artists of the younger generation,
was again full of interest this year.
All the works displayed had the same peculiar
artistic tendency, notably those by Professor A.
Kampf, who displays numerous oil-paintings, water-
colours, lithographs, grisailles, drawings, &c., for