The National Competition, igoy
character of the building in which it is placed, knowledge that the ideas the students had
It is indeed fortunate that the building is owned evolved with such care and elaboration were
by one whose fine taste is so sympathetically impossible of execution within the limitations of
conservative. C. R. Ashbee. the chosen material. In the eighties—and earlier
—the tendency of nearly all the Government
" THE STUDIO " YEAR - BOOK OF schools was t0 develop the artist (using the word
DECORATIVE ART, 1908. ;n ;ts conventional sense) at the expense of the
The third number of this Year-Book is now in designer, and the National Art Competition exhi-
preparation. As in the second volume, one of the bitions were interesting at that time rather for the
leading features will be a section devoted exclusively studies shown in painting, drawing, and modelling,
to Domestic Architecture, and the Editor will than for evidences of the application of those
be glad to receive drawings or photographs of recent branches of the arts to design and decoration. It
work of this nature, in addition to designs, etc., was a wrong tendency, of course, as the schools
suitable as illustrations to the various subjects dealt produced young painters and sculptors in the place
with in the two previous issues. These should 0f designers and craftsmen, but the tendency had
reach us not later than October 31st, and bear the its good side. Through it was maintained a fairly
name of the designer (and manufacturer, if any), high standard of work from the living model, and
with a short descriptive title of the design. the drawing and painting from the life which must
always be the backbone of the higher classes of
THE NATIONAL ART COMPE- design was generally speaking of far better quality
TITION AT
SOUTH KEN-
SINGTON, 1907.
The exhibition at South
Kensington of the prize
studies in the National Art
Competition, although on
the whole disappointing, is ' ffil | |||| ;
interesting for the number
were possessed of technical majolica tiles by albert mountford (burslem\
296
character of the building in which it is placed, knowledge that the ideas the students had
It is indeed fortunate that the building is owned evolved with such care and elaboration were
by one whose fine taste is so sympathetically impossible of execution within the limitations of
conservative. C. R. Ashbee. the chosen material. In the eighties—and earlier
—the tendency of nearly all the Government
" THE STUDIO " YEAR - BOOK OF schools was t0 develop the artist (using the word
DECORATIVE ART, 1908. ;n ;ts conventional sense) at the expense of the
The third number of this Year-Book is now in designer, and the National Art Competition exhi-
preparation. As in the second volume, one of the bitions were interesting at that time rather for the
leading features will be a section devoted exclusively studies shown in painting, drawing, and modelling,
to Domestic Architecture, and the Editor will than for evidences of the application of those
be glad to receive drawings or photographs of recent branches of the arts to design and decoration. It
work of this nature, in addition to designs, etc., was a wrong tendency, of course, as the schools
suitable as illustrations to the various subjects dealt produced young painters and sculptors in the place
with in the two previous issues. These should 0f designers and craftsmen, but the tendency had
reach us not later than October 31st, and bear the its good side. Through it was maintained a fairly
name of the designer (and manufacturer, if any), high standard of work from the living model, and
with a short descriptive title of the design. the drawing and painting from the life which must
always be the backbone of the higher classes of
THE NATIONAL ART COMPE- design was generally speaking of far better quality
TITION AT
SOUTH KEN-
SINGTON, 1907.
The exhibition at South
Kensington of the prize
studies in the National Art
Competition, although on
the whole disappointing, is ' ffil | |||| ;
interesting for the number
were possessed of technical majolica tiles by albert mountford (burslem\
296