DOI Heft:
No. 227 (February 1912)
DOI Artikel:Art School notes
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21156#0100
Art School Notes
CROSS-STITCH DESIGNS BY GIRLS IN THE ELEMEN-
TARY CLASS OF THE ROYAL HUNGARIAN ARTS
AND CRAFTS SCHOOL, BUDAPEST
Each design has its own peculiar charm. Take the
three shown above. The one at the top is evidently
a huckster expatiating on his wares. The next,
too, is a scene which must have been familiar to
the girl who designed it. For it is no uncommon
sight to see the peasants striding along the streets
loaded with their bundles and baskets. The one
below it shows three little maids from school, and
the little maid who designed this must have hailed
from Decs or some other village in the Comitat of
Tolna, where this particular costume is worn.
The rendering of the dress is excellent and espe-
cially so the head-dresses. The last one on the page
represents two delightful nigger children, showing
that the imagination of the designer has travelled
80
to distant realms. The animals are particularly
interesting—the cats with their arched backs, the
noble stag ready to leap, the pair of wise-looking
owls, and the rabbit. These children have evi-
dently studied from the living model. The other
two designs reproduced are more advanced—one
a well-proportioned border (p. 81), the other (p. 79)
a complex design based upon national motives.
All the work here illustrated is the result of less
than one year’s teaching, for this course was only
started a few months ago. The course is under a very
able teacher, Prof. Julius Mihalik, and the curri-
culum is so planned as to take the students through
all the stages, from the smallest beginnings to the
greater field of textile industry. The aim is to train
good handicraftsmen and women whose world will
be enlarged for them by their very work. For teaching
based on these principles will never produce mere
mechanical machines, though the students may
have to work at the machines. The Hungarian
authorities have grasped that first principle of art
education—and, indeed, of all education if it is to
be of real service in the battle of life—namely, that
theory and practice must go hand in hand, and
that interest must be aroused. A. S. L.
CROSS-STITCH DESIGNS BY GIRLS IN THE ELEMEN-
TARY CLASS OF THE ROYAL HUNGARIAN ARTS AND
CRAFTS SCHOOL, BUDAPEST
CROSS-STITCH DESIGNS BY GIRLS IN THE ELEMEN-
TARY CLASS OF THE ROYAL HUNGARIAN ARTS
AND CRAFTS SCHOOL, BUDAPEST
Each design has its own peculiar charm. Take the
three shown above. The one at the top is evidently
a huckster expatiating on his wares. The next,
too, is a scene which must have been familiar to
the girl who designed it. For it is no uncommon
sight to see the peasants striding along the streets
loaded with their bundles and baskets. The one
below it shows three little maids from school, and
the little maid who designed this must have hailed
from Decs or some other village in the Comitat of
Tolna, where this particular costume is worn.
The rendering of the dress is excellent and espe-
cially so the head-dresses. The last one on the page
represents two delightful nigger children, showing
that the imagination of the designer has travelled
80
to distant realms. The animals are particularly
interesting—the cats with their arched backs, the
noble stag ready to leap, the pair of wise-looking
owls, and the rabbit. These children have evi-
dently studied from the living model. The other
two designs reproduced are more advanced—one
a well-proportioned border (p. 81), the other (p. 79)
a complex design based upon national motives.
All the work here illustrated is the result of less
than one year’s teaching, for this course was only
started a few months ago. The course is under a very
able teacher, Prof. Julius Mihalik, and the curri-
culum is so planned as to take the students through
all the stages, from the smallest beginnings to the
greater field of textile industry. The aim is to train
good handicraftsmen and women whose world will
be enlarged for them by their very work. For teaching
based on these principles will never produce mere
mechanical machines, though the students may
have to work at the machines. The Hungarian
authorities have grasped that first principle of art
education—and, indeed, of all education if it is to
be of real service in the battle of life—namely, that
theory and practice must go hand in hand, and
that interest must be aroused. A. S. L.
CROSS-STITCH DESIGNS BY GIRLS IN THE ELEMEN-
TARY CLASS OF THE ROYAL HUNGARIAN ARTS AND
CRAFTS SCHOOL, BUDAPEST