DOI Heft:
No. 257 (September 1914)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21210#0344
Studio- Talk
enable the reader to understand more thoroughly
the Tokyo Bijutsu Gakko, which, following the
official translation, stands for the Imperial School
of Art, Tokyo. Art is long and the five years
course of school life is entirely inadequate for the
full development of an artist's capabilities. To be
able to produce a work worthy of being handed
down to posterity as a masterpiece of art one must
be favoured with considerable gifts and unusual
talent. While genius is rare among us, each of us
has some special gift or talent to develop and it is
the aim of the school to find what that is and to
foster it to its fullest possibility. And what the
school is able to do is to give the students in-
struction in subjects calculated to develop hidden
possibilities in them and merely start them in the
branch of art to which they are to devote their
lives. The work worthy of themselves can only
be looked for from the life of constant effort and
perseverance after they finish the school. Such is
the view held by the school.
In the course of Japanese painting, the students
324
in the last year are divided into three classes, each
with a special teacher. During the first four years
they are taught to understand the mental attitude
and the peculiarities which characterise the brush
work of both old and modern painters, by copying
the paintings of old masters and those of their
teachers. Sketching also plays a very important
part in the curriculum. Students are first taught
to sketch such simple objects as grass, trees,
flowers and fruit. Then they proceed to sketch
inserts, birds, and beasts, either in the class-room
or in the zoological garden situated close at hand.
Subsequently they enter on a course of drawing
from the living model. Armour and helmets,
State robes as worn in the olden times, as well as
the dresses of the present day are used in order to
acquaint the students with the manners and customs
of different periods and with the composition of
colours. Throughout the course they are en-
couraged to apply in their compositions the know-
ledge they have gained, and thus an endeavour
is made to foster originality. Their ability to paint
is also turned towards design, beginning with
enable the reader to understand more thoroughly
the Tokyo Bijutsu Gakko, which, following the
official translation, stands for the Imperial School
of Art, Tokyo. Art is long and the five years
course of school life is entirely inadequate for the
full development of an artist's capabilities. To be
able to produce a work worthy of being handed
down to posterity as a masterpiece of art one must
be favoured with considerable gifts and unusual
talent. While genius is rare among us, each of us
has some special gift or talent to develop and it is
the aim of the school to find what that is and to
foster it to its fullest possibility. And what the
school is able to do is to give the students in-
struction in subjects calculated to develop hidden
possibilities in them and merely start them in the
branch of art to which they are to devote their
lives. The work worthy of themselves can only
be looked for from the life of constant effort and
perseverance after they finish the school. Such is
the view held by the school.
In the course of Japanese painting, the students
324
in the last year are divided into three classes, each
with a special teacher. During the first four years
they are taught to understand the mental attitude
and the peculiarities which characterise the brush
work of both old and modern painters, by copying
the paintings of old masters and those of their
teachers. Sketching also plays a very important
part in the curriculum. Students are first taught
to sketch such simple objects as grass, trees,
flowers and fruit. Then they proceed to sketch
inserts, birds, and beasts, either in the class-room
or in the zoological garden situated close at hand.
Subsequently they enter on a course of drawing
from the living model. Armour and helmets,
State robes as worn in the olden times, as well as
the dresses of the present day are used in order to
acquaint the students with the manners and customs
of different periods and with the composition of
colours. Throughout the course they are en-
couraged to apply in their compositions the know-
ledge they have gained, and thus an endeavour
is made to foster originality. Their ability to paint
is also turned towards design, beginning with