Studio: international art (48.1910)

Art School Notes

GLASS WARE DESIGNED AND PRODUCED AT THE FACHSCHULE FUR GLASINDUSTRIE AT HAIDA, BOHEMIA

One of the first of these reforms was attempted
more than a century ago, when the schools were
crowded with young aspirants for artistic fame.
Unfortunately their general standard was so low
that the Academicians ordered each of them to
submit anew an example of his drawing. As the
consequence of this re-examination some of the
students were degraded from the life school to
that of the antique, and others turned out alto-
gether. The treatment was so drastic that for a
time the schools were almost deserted, and an artist
who worked at the Academy in those stormy days
has recorded that more than once he was the only
person in the life class with the exception of the
A^isitor and the model. Among the more important
reforms of late years at the Academy were the
change in the status of the women students, who,
since 1903, have worked on level terms with the
men, and the new law, made in 1905, on the
motion of Sir George Frampton, which grants
admission to the schools without examination to
Colonial students in painting and sculpture who
have been awarded travelling studentships for the
purpose of studying art in Europe.

Mr. Arthur Thomson, Professor of Anatomy at
the Royal Academy, will give this autumn a series
of twelve addresses at Burlington House, com-
mencing on the 20th inst, at four o'clock. The
anatomy addresses, in common with the other
winter lectures at the Academy, are open to all the
exhibitors of last year at Burlington House, and
practically to any artist who cares to take a little
trouble to obtain a ticket. They do not, however,
attract as large an audience as they deserve. Yet
there have been times when the anatomy lectures

at the Academy drew such crowds that people
fought to get in, and officers from Bow Street had to
be stationed at the door to keep out the disorderly
element. Those were the addresses of Sir Anthony
Carlisle, and the crowds were drawn to Somerset
House not by the merits of the lecturer but by
extraneous attractions. Sir Anthony, who used to
lecture in full Court dress, with lace ruffles, and
a bagwig, made a point always of providing some
novelty that would be sure of attracting the town.
Once, to display the muscles in action, he had a
squad of eight nude Life Guardsmen going through
the sword exercise, and again a troupe of Chinese
jugglers displaying their agility. Mr. Thomson in
lecturing for artists and students confines himself,
properly enough, to the bones and muscles that
affect the structure and the external forms, but
Sir Anthony loved to go deeper and to horrify his
audience with pitiful remnants of humanity handed
round on dinner plates. Hazlitt when he attended
one of these lectures had a hard struggle to keep
himself from fainting. The dates of the Academy
addresses on painting, sculpture and architecture
have not yet been announced, but their delivery
will probably commence immediately, after the
Christmas holidays. W. T. W.

HAIDA, BOHEMIA.—Two illustrations
are here given showing examples of
glass ware designed and produced
at the Fachschule fiir Glasindustrie at
Haida, a small town of some 7,000 inhabitants,
where glassmaking has been the staple industry for
a very long period. In connection with this in-
dustry the school, which, like most of the Fach-
schulen in various parts of the Austrian empire,

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