The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-10-17 00:00:00

Rep 411 ,r he yea shahs ANNA, 1881.

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The committee beg to ley before the subscribers and
etude's!. th-ir report for the year ending August, 1681 —The
trate/quer'. •:e dint shows an .me as f Mow. • -Goren,
ment giant, SSI Is ; student. foci, 161 6. W ;
1113 104. 91 Stistie its attending during the yew, 71.
being an inastee of one on the prevlous year. At the annual
Gore•nment examinations hell In May ler the 1
students were sue print :—Viol •rla Bar imhe, past :
Agn. Cunnineion, freehand, pew; F °ranee Cunntratton,
freehand, par; Thomas Duntrixone, trxeband, p.m. •, t hu•
lotte Evans. freedund, tau ; .I.,baisna house' fresud, pis. ;
Annie Goodfellow, 1311,1c111, pus; Maud Oldscres, freehand,
as ; Harry Pommy, fe.de.nd, pass Harry Vey, 'petiole,
paw; Charles V.eo, freehand, piss ; John Down, geometry,
par Ath pl grade prise woe esrardel to Annie 0 -.11. low
I-,, !hems,. anil follno from net-ire. Forty•eigrit rodents
soot 1181 worts to the annul examination at Mouth Kensing-
ton. Ihe full ewer lofSI In the advansel Clips was
ranted In works done by Annie Goodfellow, and the pl. award
of Ibe was granted in the elementary section in work • &one by
Walter D•bben. The sword, for worts submittel f-ir local
competitdo were as follows :—Figure—No Compel
Advanced .n ill or water e •lour—Prise, Ani.le Cl odd 11-e;
ditto Medal Wuhan,. Elementary water c-1 -or—Pr
lean:: Se 'I; he, leabd ;e, Kate 0641 Advanced
Multi—Prise, Victim lis combs ; he. anor Hill • c. Ma., •
untieEloasentiry o'isik or pencil (a) Isadso:w•—thles,
Sternal Tl•orburn • I. c, /tile Orson; o, Charlie Wilkin•on.
(b)Ssure—Prise. dam Pcuncy ; Wader Dibben. Free-
hand—Prise, Edith Smith; h c, Charles Vteo • c, Mary Can'
hr do. Freor.•l-1 (under It yoare)—Prist, Elliaboth Wright.
The bust study In a iy stage, done partly at houre--Prae,
Anne Dymond ; h c, LII. Bull; c, ry•l7. Kee iot
Am It. School of Art is now to take a new leave of life,
to morn into anew and ixteoded home (for which new
furniture and fittings will bn required), and r it has tu
premise and prospect of mtny new pupils, the committee
earnestly appeal to the residents In the town and neigh-
bodrhonl to come forward and help them In their
eseandrot'mcon"elWudinak• theeirthreprht"'wliathgottucrraerinTbffethentripw'lotsrd.
of Menke to Kr. Baker for the manner in which be hal
worked for the welfare of lb. school under many
difficulUne and conch disownment( nt•

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00e.giessin mthogviug.htetebadeowputionmokfttdhetorectport.;
sailthere that night, be was puzzled to think why he wow
pitched on, because if there was one person in the
oetghbourlio 4 who knew little about art It was him-
self. He happened to be once at South Kensington,
an I was going through the art furniture depirtment,
and he steppe! opposite • wardrobe of • fashionable
green celour. He began to talk to the man about it,
and be aske I him what it was made of, and the price.
lie mowed a figure which certainly seemed somewhat
extravagant. s , he remarked It was a lit le more than
i,e value. The man looked him steadily in the face,
and qeletly sail" I should not like to talk to you, for
you evidently know nothing abut it. (Laughter.)
Wei, he thought so too, an-I cisme away. (Laughter )
It was not quilts right to say he knew nothing
about art, but he did not Know the ways of
pro luring art, because there wits no one to
whom at del not appeal In some shape or
other—to whom a strain of mipie, or a puaage from
one of the vest dramsti•ts (he did not mean from the
dramatists of the present day, and which they cnuld
only wish were merinieglese, but the old dramatists,
who pr eiuced life salt w...), or • picture in o -lour or
in it no, to whom such did not appeal, and who was
net move I and life I oat of the narrow surroundings
of their daily life, and given ensue gleams of things
beyond, and perhans something higher. Of comers it
was not given to everybody the privrege of ben; able
to leayei,e the world • great mark, either in /endplate,
in pointing, or In in pio, which would appeal to men
of all races, in all times, an-I In all conditions of life ;
hut to thou who followed art truly it was given
in their own way the ewesr to produce that which
might tonal eracce chord, an I make those who lived in
the narrow einem:utter:es in which their life might he
cut to do something to make them happier. briJotsr,
and better. (Applause ) This school must be cs'ied
echo3l of art, not pointing only, but both, for they were
both taught, an I well taught, and hew thoroughly
learned, the works on the walla thor 'uglily showed. To
learn painting sod drew:ng an a vrry good thing in
themselves, to many of ceur-e, the opportunity of learn.
jig was a means ot earning their own daily brea I, and
to others • means of eking out an otherwise slender
ioeome ; but besides thi it was a phossant rezreation,
an Ito those who utiliz-d their talent, for sketching
peewee% was given the enviable glt id the newer to
teite away scenes which they hod visited, and which,
perhaps, they had once I ,wed, an I had to leave. Art
made our ro ,me au I h amen much lighter and brighter
iii the leavings and works of our own hands. pobaps,
or the work, of other betide. It required thi. study of
art, this leesoing to draw, to improve their homes in
dr:reigns of the very paper., cretonnes, and chit:ease.
and if they c ,ul,l enly get t,m deaire to learn inculcate I
in the low-r trestles of soelety, they might hnpe in time
to perseede the great designers an-I founders to toe"
ca'eurs in go al designs, and not in large masses, au I
with queatienable taste, and instead of drawing
higgledy-pigglely, to pro lace something like harmoni-
ous georilet dos' deafen., which now very few workmen
were capable of. There were exception., it was true,
and honourable exuptions. But all this cou'd not
be accomplished without really hard and steady wnrk,
an I was not attained nntil all the rules sal maxims
taneht there were, as it were, ground into, and become
part of, themselves. That the members cf the eohool
did work was proved, not only by what was there
that day, but by the fact that 50 of their etudente
sent up no less than 300 drawings between them, and
another year 46 sent up 2^oo, which they wou'd notice
was about the came average. Apneurntly the work
was not confined to oils, water colones, chalks, an i
pencils. for before him was a set of chins, pained by
Miss Gelpin, and excess'iogly well painted the pieces
were. That was a very pleasing way of using the
lessons taught there The Chairman then referred to
Mr. Halter's own personal success, and expressed the
gratificetion he felt st seeing olle of his works on the
line in Burlington Renee. He had been very pleased
that day In going over the beautiful new room next
the museum, in which it matt be a perfect delight to
work. Ile beard it wet already beginning to
be furnished. There were four large plaster
carets, offered by Mr. Blokes, and arsoepterl by
, the school, which were not only ornaments to the
school. but most useful as models foi drawing. Art
was not attained without work, and all this drawing
and lessons were, after all, only a means to an end.
It was not • school of painting and drawing only, but ,
the lessons they learnt there were merely to enable '
the students to give erect to the thoughts within
them, and to overcome the stillness, and the deadlier
of the body with which their thoughts were clothed.
This required work, not only here, but in all their I
life.—• constant ruling of the body to subdue it to the '
thoughts within them; not to work for work'. sake,
and for effect, not to strive t 3 produce a drawing
which would induce people to say "How pretty I"
being taken by the colour or by the correctness of the
designs. That was not what art taught them to do.
Never rend the effect; if the act was there, If the
mind was there, if the thought was there, the effect
w mold come. All true followers of art, in doing their
work either of drawing, painting, or of sculpture,
did not think about the effect ; it was not
the effect which thus things themselves pro-
duced, but it was what the mind, of which
thie was merely the outcome, produicel. What Was
It that made the obi masters appeal to us in such
pictures as thoullof Raphael or Murillo more than
the pictures of modern date Became when they
lo Aced on their pictures they felt they were bmkieg at
the real thing ; It was not a mere doll bit of canvas,
with something painted on it, but • real living oreatioa
—because the man himself was its it. Their work was
their life, and their art was their existence, arid they
pat their very lives Into the canvas. It was not the
mere outward accident of • particular figure they were
painting, but it was a true and liviog reality. On the
other hand, art was not the mere stn. ephere if
radheticistn, or that rod of idea that one must have •
particular looking dress, in what was a lied art colour,
art hate, and such lake ; that was not real art—it was
humbug, a pretence, and a sham. Art I. • life of
action, said the Chairman in conclusion, and should
draw eureelves!out of ourselves, and the more each one
learns this, and learns to subdue the outward and
material part of himself, to deny self, to live all our
life, in the school an I out of the schnol, so se to
sub lue the oetward part of self t 3 the thoughts
within, the more we shall produce works, either if
pencil, painting, or rrulp•ure, which shall have the
imprea of truth nine them and the impress of reality:
and not only all they proclaim works which shall
please, but, far more, elevate. ( Applause.) There is
nothing too simple, nothing too humble, an-I nothing
to mean if it will tend in any way t - inkt any one
happier, any life brighter, or any part of life more
real and true—nothing is too humble to roma order
the sway of art, to be used as a me ins of expreseing
truth- That is the real meaning when we say we have
art within us. The more we can clear away self, and
let the light, the depth, and the breadth of God's
t. oth shine into an-I oleu our minds, an I overflow
ir.to our hearts, the more we shall pr 'duce works
which will not only please, but
pl suse.
The Rev. IL EVIRAT, seconded the rootioa of the
choir.e.n. A tilresaieg Mined( to the past end the present
p i on of the school, he retuarkel that abet, ver he raid
tin iu i. un.lerat ma it Wail n in auy way for the
r p,upu,iol flan: g fault. Be had I eon a mem'mr of the
~ernitte of the school of art, &oil therefore what-
nor he wi C vibe t 1 say applied to himself lust as much
as it applied tr others. He wee quite willing to take his
share of the blame, it any was to he borne by anybody.
During the past ton yaws. =Wag, absolutely nothing.
lied been ten. for Nis school el srl by lass lirsaidas