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Title: | Elementary instruction in drawing and colouring |
Keywords: | Art -- Study and teaching Drawing Color Educational planning Educational change Art education -- Curricula |
Issue Date: | 1853 |
Publisher: | George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode |
Citation: | (1853). Elementary instruction in drawing and colouring. Melitensia Miscellanea Collection (Melit-Misc. vol. 81.13). University of Malta Library, Melitensia Special Collections. |
Abstract: | Addressess at the Opening of an Elementary Drawing School at Westminster,
Presided over by the Right Hon. J. W. Henley, President of the
Board of Trade, &c., on 2d June 1852. Address by Henry Cole, C.B., the Superintendent of General Management. Fourteen years have passed since it was admitted to be public policy that the Government should undertake to establish schools to afford instruction in the principles of Art, with the view of improving and beautifying the objects of every-day use, such as the paper hangings which decorate the nakedness of walls, the carpets and curtains which give warmth and colour to our rooms, the draperies which cover our persons, the utensils in metal and earth and glass which administer to our daily wants, comforts, and civilized habits. A Central School of Design was constituted in 1837, the express purpose of which was to provide for the architect, the upholsterer, the weaver, the printer, the potter, and all manufacturers, artizans better educated to originate and execute their respective wares, and to invest them with greater symmetry of form, with increased harmony of colour, and with greater fitness of decoration; to render manufactures not less useful by ornamenting them, but more beautiful, and therefore more useful. The establishment of the Central School at Somerset House has been followed by the organization of 21 other schools, located in all parts of the United Kingdom. 2. At the origin of these schools it seems to have been assumed as sufficient, that it was only necessary to deecree to have a School of Design in locality, and to find the funds and educational apparatus requisite for its foundation, and that a School of Design would become then and there established, and its fruits be manifested at once in the improvement of manufactures; but the experience of 14 years, not with any one but with all the 21 schools, has shown that the looked-for result was not to be produced by these means only. Experience in every one of the 21 schools has proved that students did not exist sufficiently qualified by previous Art-education to enter them, but had to be trained, not merely to be able to understand and practise the principles of design, but to learn the very elements of drawing... [Excerpt] |
Description: | I. On the necessity of acquiring a power of Drawing and knowledge of Colour. II. The mode of proceeding for establishing Classes or Schools for Elementary Instruction in Art. III. The duties of the Masters, with a list of the Articles and Examples requisite for teaching. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/130373 |
Appears in Collections: | Miscellania : volume 081 - A&SCMisc |
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