Studio: international art (88.1924)

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with a brilliant capacity for producing,
to order, designs of a certain type but
with no original impulses remaining. a
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now the school has dealt with this problem.
The general standard of the exhibits is
undoubtedly very high, and one can,
without any reservation whatever, enjoy
and applaud many of the things shown.
In certain sections, however, an impression
is conveyed that too little encouragement
is given to the student to follow the
. „,„, dictates of his own personal vision,

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by miss f. e. graham unhampered by trade conventions, lnis
(L.c.c. central school) applies, for instance, to some of the metal-
work, which, though restrained and techni-
cally satisfying, shows very little individual
handwriting; and also to the designs for
printed fabrics. Many of the latter are
competent and convincing exercises, but,
in their efforts to keep within certain
fixed boundaries, few of the students
%|IMHK seem to have found anything personal
1 to say, and no fresh impetus is forthcoming

in a branch of applied art which badly
11 needs an infusion of new ideas and

"-"t—i^T individualistic experiments. One does not

BpttP^^^ sense the designers' personality as one does,

for instance, in the pottery section, which
is again very attractive and encouraging.
inlaid box by a. There is also a refreshing and entertaining
a^cx. central school) personal outlook in the essays in wall

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