DOI Heft:
No. 83 (February, 1900)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19784#0066
Studio- Talk
quench the smoking flax, and by still wiser dis-
couragement did not allow the child to run before
it could creep. Eventually there came to me the
new birth, a wonderful factor in the art life of every
student, when everything is transmuted, and the
transmuting power is in his own ryes —eyes that
before were blind and saw not. It is as if the
heavens open."
This expression of a personality, psychological
as it may appear in its language, is a candid
record of the effect of a real education, and it is
a matter of little moment by what exact efforts
this feeling has made itself manifest. For if the
artist be discovered in the student, the deductive
process must vary with every individuality pre-
senting itself.
V No method or medium by which art can express
itself is neglected, only no specialisation of powers
is permitted until the student has attained to a
certain proficiency in general power. He must
learn to draw—whether by pencil, by brush, by
clay is a matter of no moment, but draw he must—
and throughout these preliminaries the student is
considered as a unit needing a special regimen;
even as a plant requires a certain soil, and a
particular light and heat to develop its latent
possibilities, because it differs in its growth from
all other plants. But, once a certain power be
attained, the student specialises his work, and as
painter, sculptor, architect, or decorative artist
devotes his energies to the aim he has in view.
And as the artist works all the better while making
his reputation if his coat be out at elbows, and his
diet enough to keep a strong heart beating in a
healthy body, so the Glasgow School of Art has
hitherto not suffered from an over-abundance of
this world's goods. It is not a municipal school,
nor is its exchequer replenished from the rates.
In company with all other Schools of Art it receives
State aid, but unlike most large schools a fostering
municipality does not minister to its wants, and its
new building owes more to other sources of help
than to civic enterprise.
GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART; THE MUSEUM FROM A PHOTOGRAPH
53 •
quench the smoking flax, and by still wiser dis-
couragement did not allow the child to run before
it could creep. Eventually there came to me the
new birth, a wonderful factor in the art life of every
student, when everything is transmuted, and the
transmuting power is in his own ryes —eyes that
before were blind and saw not. It is as if the
heavens open."
This expression of a personality, psychological
as it may appear in its language, is a candid
record of the effect of a real education, and it is
a matter of little moment by what exact efforts
this feeling has made itself manifest. For if the
artist be discovered in the student, the deductive
process must vary with every individuality pre-
senting itself.
V No method or medium by which art can express
itself is neglected, only no specialisation of powers
is permitted until the student has attained to a
certain proficiency in general power. He must
learn to draw—whether by pencil, by brush, by
clay is a matter of no moment, but draw he must—
and throughout these preliminaries the student is
considered as a unit needing a special regimen;
even as a plant requires a certain soil, and a
particular light and heat to develop its latent
possibilities, because it differs in its growth from
all other plants. But, once a certain power be
attained, the student specialises his work, and as
painter, sculptor, architect, or decorative artist
devotes his energies to the aim he has in view.
And as the artist works all the better while making
his reputation if his coat be out at elbows, and his
diet enough to keep a strong heart beating in a
healthy body, so the Glasgow School of Art has
hitherto not suffered from an over-abundance of
this world's goods. It is not a municipal school,
nor is its exchequer replenished from the rates.
In company with all other Schools of Art it receives
State aid, but unlike most large schools a fostering
municipality does not minister to its wants, and its
new building owes more to other sources of help
than to civic enterprise.
GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART; THE MUSEUM FROM A PHOTOGRAPH
53 •