Studio: international art (60.1914)

Royal Hungarian Arts and Crafts School, Budapest

ornamental purposes for re-
production by various
methods such as ordinary
letterpress, printing, linoleum
engraving, lithography, &c.

There are excellent work-
shops in the school fitted up
with everything requisite for
this branch of the school’s
work.

The special classes for
plastic art and ceramics are
under the charge of Prof.

Si may, as is also that for study
fi gural drawing. He has been

particularly successful in introducing rapid drawing
from the life. Beginning with simplified’contours of
the model, he proceeds to* more and more difficult
problems till the whole human form has been

BY L. ENGEL (PROF. HELBING S CLASS)

female, the final step being the study of composition
in space. The illustrations on these pages testify
to the excellence of the work done in Prof. Simay’s
class for sculpture.

The special course for ceramics is only a year
old, but in this short time good results have been

mastered. The drawings are made in five minutes,
and here, of course, practice is necessary for attain-
ing anything like perfection. After the simplified
contours from the life with the skeleton placed by
the side of the clothed model so that the students
have a thorough comprehension of the figure, they
repeat their work in light and shade in different
tones, first with the pen and later with the brush.
Every movement of the human body is thus care-
fully studied and rapidly put down on paper, every
time in more intense tones and shades, first from
the nude and then from the dressed figure. They
then proceed to draw two figures together, male and

BUST OF A WARRIOR. BY G. IMRE (PROF. SIMAY’S
CLASS FOR SCULPTURE)

MAJOLICA BOX. BY J. FARY (PROF. SIMAY’S
CLASS FOR CERAMICS)

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