Simple Art Applied to Handwork, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from Simple Art Applied to Handwork, Vol. 2

Some such thoughts and aims may possibly have been in the minds of the framers of the first drawing scheme for elementary schools, though they certainly approached the subject from an opposite pole, the form of the decorative units being their first consideration the old freehand copies), appropriate applica tion being left to take care of itself, or perhaps reserved for future development. Unfortunately, although this scheme was in operation for many years, it never generally reached the applied stage. Perhaps examinations helped to fix the original scheme and denied it development. Possibly, also, the class conditions that held in those days, when each school was a barrack con taining classes of from sixty to ninety as a usual thing, more than helped to crystallize and preserve its original shape. Handwork of any kind was then practically impossible, owing to this unwieldy size of classes so a short cut was tried, leaving out the necessary craft work and getting at once to the purely art work.

Still, however much we are in agreement with the possible aims of the original scheme, it must be admitted it was a sad failure. At the present time, we are consequently wiser in the respect that we recognise that decoration should be a part of, or at least appropriate to, the object, or the tool that produces it, not some thing abstract or apart from it. Naturally, it follows that the two should not be separated.

The first thing that would appear to hold in decoration is that the decorator should know something of the thing to be decorated. Otherwise the ornament is likely to resemble that of a Christmas tree - something affixed to the object, not an integral part of it. Herein lies the good that handwork is likely to have on applied art and on the child mind. The construction of the object or surface to be decorated gives a sound idea of the possibilities and appropriateness of the decoration. The maker of a book or box or metal cup will, cater-i's paribus, more certainly know the kind of decoration that is fit and proper, as well as convenient, than he or she who has had no connection with its construction. The tools that are used will produce naturally their own conventions.

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