Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-13

, shading and perspective, all treated on tn
: same principle of first seeing actual object
in such condition as to furnish actual exam
pies of shade, shadow and perspective.
In this way eur learner is all the tim
seeing nature and learning to see it, and i
representing on paper the objects as they
really look When seen. As might be expect
ed, the pupil at once becomes interested il
his work, and this interest deepens ant
strengthens instead of declining and finally
dying out. There is nothing in the natur,
of drudgery to make it die out. With Thu
course of training, the learner gains aetua
and available power to represent precisely
those things he will want to represent wher
he takes to earning his bread and his fame
with his pencil, Finally, we heartily com
mend this as the learners best first book
so far as we have any knowledge on the
subject
Those who have already obtained the
skill that this little hand book is meant to
give, and who mean to devote their lives to
art as profession, are now ready to enter
upon the course of study set forth in that
very remarkable book called The Care
Method Of Learning to Drd,c from Memory,
prepared by Madame Elizabeth Cave, an
artist and instructor in Paris, and re-pub-
lished Gin translation by G. P Putnam &
Son, New York. This method differs com
pletely from the method of Professor Good
ison, in that the pupil begins, not by draw
ing from actual objects, but by copying
heads, hands, feet, and the like, from the
drawings of masters. 'But, it viii be said,
"this is precisely what he has been doing
everywhere by every drawing teacher in
Europe and America Not by any means
Copying has been common, but NOT Mad
anne Caves way of copying. The way, the
method, the process of copying these draw
ings of the masters is what constitutes the
novelty, the popularity and the exceeding
ly great merit and value Of her system of
instruction. Let us try to give an idea of
how she does it.
The pupil is given Autograph drawing,
we will say of head. This is the model
from which he is to draw, and on this mod
ell he has three exercises, wholly distinct
from each other.
LIST. He lays upon the model a sheet of
transparent paper (of the kind called by
artists tracing paper and makes upon this
on ox-acf froo;Dfr Of tbo modal W. uo,- ~
ACT, because the utmost pains must be taken
to make 1T exact, inasmuch as the goodness
of the other two exercises depends wholly
upon exactness in this first one. The trac-
ing got in this way, and labored upon until
nicely correct, is called the proof 1t is go
ing to serve as thepupiTs instructor through
out the following two exercises.
I'd: Lay the proof-racing to one side, set
the Autograph model upright before the pu-
pill, and have him set to and copy the model
by the eye, on common drawing paper
The copy is to be of exactly the same size
as the model, in every part and particular.
At first the beginner will be quito sure to
fail in doing this; and right here is the
value of the tracing proof The pupil lays
it over his copy, and by means of it tests
the exactness. of tho copy-sees just where
his pencil has gone amiss, and Just how
much. 1t is criticism absolutely rigorous,
yet without the fault-fnding tones of liv-
ing teachers voice, and free from the dis
and depressing effects of such ex-
pressions and tones of teacher impatient, |
or even, perhaps, angry, at his pupils faults.
With this proof, then, the pupil must work
away at his copy from the model till that
copy comedies in every particular with the
proof This compels attention and enfcrces |
exactness, trains the eye to measure shapes
and sizes and the hand to repro duce them
In this way the learner is put in possession
Of a master always ready and always more
rigidly critical than any living master can
be. No fault, no hand breadth deviation
from absolute correctness can escape detec-
ton and exposure; and it is precisely this
that constitutes the wonderful power of the
Cave method
Sd. The pupil having labored at the Sec
ond exercise till his copy is correct, must
now lay aside the model, take fresh sheet
IF paper and draws the head from memory
not looking at model or proof until the
new drawing is all done. This exercise
Jailed drawing from memory---is, of course,
n its nature the most difficult of the three
put it is also the most profitable. In it the
ouyil depends upon eye-memory, and by it
trains and develops that eye
memory. The three great things for the
lrtist are these power of the eye % meas
ire, power of the eye to remember, power
If the eye to delineate what the eye has
But we must not lengthen this article fur
her. We wanted to point out to such as
re teaching others, or are themselves learn
ng, the best helps that we know Of The
JaUe Method costs a dollar, and can be had
y mail direct from the publishers We ,
hink it likely, too, that they will furnish
il the models and materials necessary in
working by the system. We close by add a
ng that Madame Caves way has been I
bundantly tested in France and found to :
e remarkably successful. .
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