DOI Heft:
No. 86 (May, 1900)
DOI Artikel:Some work by the students of the Glasgow School of Art
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19784#0247
Glasgow School of A rt
specially executed for the demands of an institu-
tion worked by students for students and known as
the Glasgow School of Art Club.
The Club expresses itself in set terms as being
established as a common meeting ground for
present and past students, pledged to forward its
objects by the production of art work by its
members. Monthly competitions, covering all
classes of work, are set by the Head Master, aided
by the various directors of departments, and are
judged by him ; but the authorities rely chiefly for
the material for their annual exhibition upon the
work executed during the summer vacation. A
vacation working scheme is prepared, at once
varied and comprehensive, and on a given date
outside judges are called in (and of these Glasgow
possesses most capable examples) to decide merit,
and a public exhibition crowns the year's pro-
gramme.
p
CARTOON FOR STAINED GLASS
liY MONRO S. ORK
234
WORK HAG DESIGNED AND EXECUTED
BY MISS McBETII
The Head Master is the director of the Club, and
there is every reason to congratulate the members
upon the high standard reached in the last club
show. The exhibition was, in fact, one of the best
which has been brought together, and proved itself
of especial interest to those who study the trained
efforts of the students of the coming generation,
many of whom are destined to become working
designers, occupying varying positions of more or
less influence. In most of the exhibits there was
noticeable that individual feeling and treatment
spoken of above, thus practically proving the exist-
ence of that independent thought and action so
desirable to foster and encourage. It is said by
some that this striving after originality ought rather
to be repressed in the work of students, and that
every genius must learn to obey rules before it can
intelligently discard them ; but there is no fixed
time when the student ends and the artist begins.
The student is the artist, and the artist must be the
student to the end of the chapter. Especially in
design, ideas are by far the more important, and no
amount of faultless execution will atone for a poor
conception. Given just the requisite amount of
audacity, combined with the sense of beauty and
proportion required by a designer to raise his work
specially executed for the demands of an institu-
tion worked by students for students and known as
the Glasgow School of Art Club.
The Club expresses itself in set terms as being
established as a common meeting ground for
present and past students, pledged to forward its
objects by the production of art work by its
members. Monthly competitions, covering all
classes of work, are set by the Head Master, aided
by the various directors of departments, and are
judged by him ; but the authorities rely chiefly for
the material for their annual exhibition upon the
work executed during the summer vacation. A
vacation working scheme is prepared, at once
varied and comprehensive, and on a given date
outside judges are called in (and of these Glasgow
possesses most capable examples) to decide merit,
and a public exhibition crowns the year's pro-
gramme.
p
CARTOON FOR STAINED GLASS
liY MONRO S. ORK
234
WORK HAG DESIGNED AND EXECUTED
BY MISS McBETII
The Head Master is the director of the Club, and
there is every reason to congratulate the members
upon the high standard reached in the last club
show. The exhibition was, in fact, one of the best
which has been brought together, and proved itself
of especial interest to those who study the trained
efforts of the students of the coming generation,
many of whom are destined to become working
designers, occupying varying positions of more or
less influence. In most of the exhibits there was
noticeable that individual feeling and treatment
spoken of above, thus practically proving the exist-
ence of that independent thought and action so
desirable to foster and encourage. It is said by
some that this striving after originality ought rather
to be repressed in the work of students, and that
every genius must learn to obey rules before it can
intelligently discard them ; but there is no fixed
time when the student ends and the artist begins.
The student is the artist, and the artist must be the
student to the end of the chapter. Especially in
design, ideas are by far the more important, and no
amount of faultless execution will atone for a poor
conception. Given just the requisite amount of
audacity, combined with the sense of beauty and
proportion required by a designer to raise his work