DOI Heft:
No. 257 (September 1914)
DOI Artikel:The National Competition of Schools of Art, 1914
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21210#0298
The National Competition of Schools of A rt, IQ14
sections. There were numbers of creditable works
among the examples (if applied art hut none of real
distinction ; and it seems unlikely that the general
standard of the work shown in the competitions
will be raised until the practical side is more fully
developed. Until that is accomplished the teach-
DESIGN FOR A WALL DECORATION IN TEMPERA
BY EDITH A. HENDRY (IPSWICH)
ing of the applied arts in our schools can never give
really satisfactory results. Our methods, it is true,
are better than they were a generation ago, but they
still encourage a large amount of designing on
paper which cannot be carried out, or if carried out
is incongruous with the material and with the con-
structive character of the object. The consistent
combination of theory and practice is a prominent
feature of such important institutions as the Cen-
tral School of Arts and Crafts in London and the
•Glasgow School of Art, which do not take part in the
National Competition, and on the Continent it has
produced excellent results in the schools of Austria
where the arts and crafts movement has been taken
up with enthusiasm, although in England, where
the movement originated, it seems to be to some
extent moribund through lack of encouragement.
The general mediocrity of the applied art
seen in the National Art Competition was
278
almost equalled in the fine arts section, but here
there was at least one work of distinction. This, a
modelled figure of a kneeling girl by Francis Wiles,
of the Metropolitan School of Art, Dublin, was
one of the best things of its kind that have been
shown at South Kensington and well deserved the
award of a gold medal and the praise bestowed upon
it by the sculptor-judges, Mr. W. R. Colton, A.R.A.,
Mr. F. W. Pomeroy, A.R.A., and Mr. F. 1 >erwent
Wood, A.R.A.
The work in stained wood was once more a
feature in the National Art Competition, and Miss
Gwen White, of the Polytechnic, Marylebone, who
won a gold medal last year, gained a similar award
for a box and a triptych. The principal feature
of the box was a circular picture in colour, on
the lid, of a girl in a beautiful dress of the
eighteenth century looking with admiration at the
DRAWING FOR ILLUSTRATION. BY BERNICE
A. s. SHAW (LEICESTER)
sections. There were numbers of creditable works
among the examples (if applied art hut none of real
distinction ; and it seems unlikely that the general
standard of the work shown in the competitions
will be raised until the practical side is more fully
developed. Until that is accomplished the teach-
DESIGN FOR A WALL DECORATION IN TEMPERA
BY EDITH A. HENDRY (IPSWICH)
ing of the applied arts in our schools can never give
really satisfactory results. Our methods, it is true,
are better than they were a generation ago, but they
still encourage a large amount of designing on
paper which cannot be carried out, or if carried out
is incongruous with the material and with the con-
structive character of the object. The consistent
combination of theory and practice is a prominent
feature of such important institutions as the Cen-
tral School of Arts and Crafts in London and the
•Glasgow School of Art, which do not take part in the
National Competition, and on the Continent it has
produced excellent results in the schools of Austria
where the arts and crafts movement has been taken
up with enthusiasm, although in England, where
the movement originated, it seems to be to some
extent moribund through lack of encouragement.
The general mediocrity of the applied art
seen in the National Art Competition was
278
almost equalled in the fine arts section, but here
there was at least one work of distinction. This, a
modelled figure of a kneeling girl by Francis Wiles,
of the Metropolitan School of Art, Dublin, was
one of the best things of its kind that have been
shown at South Kensington and well deserved the
award of a gold medal and the praise bestowed upon
it by the sculptor-judges, Mr. W. R. Colton, A.R.A.,
Mr. F. W. Pomeroy, A.R.A., and Mr. F. 1 >erwent
Wood, A.R.A.
The work in stained wood was once more a
feature in the National Art Competition, and Miss
Gwen White, of the Polytechnic, Marylebone, who
won a gold medal last year, gained a similar award
for a box and a triptych. The principal feature
of the box was a circular picture in colour, on
the lid, of a girl in a beautiful dress of the
eighteenth century looking with admiration at the
DRAWING FOR ILLUSTRATION. BY BERNICE
A. s. SHAW (LEICESTER)