Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-11-30
DRAWING

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Any outlay on the part Of The Statscan
be justified only on the grounds that III
citizens are benefited thereby.
Are the advantages arising from the
study of drawing in the Public Schools suf.
6cient return for the money and time devot.
ed to this branchi
Let us look, fos an answer from those
countries where drawing has for yeas besn
considered an important feature OF popular
education.
There we find that the result has been 90
satisfactory that the Governments Of these
countries, are convinced of the practice
value of this study. and have in
creased the time devoted to it. and
made the instruction given Of still better
quality: and the most munifcent and com
prehensive provisions for industrial art edu.
cation are being undertaken, with the full
| faith that the ultimate returns will more
than outbalsnce the expeuce Of the outlays.
In illustration take England. Her man
ufactories were established when her mara
time superiority gave her easy access to
| European and other countries. Later, WITH
the development Of railway and telegraph
schemes, she found herself confront
ed by products brought from every
mart of Europe, even the remotest
competion became general and the English
| man found himself liable to be driven from
| the market by foreign manufacturers.
The shawl manufactury Of heeds con-
fessed their inability to compete unless the
British people were educated to an sppre
citation of beauty Of form and color and the
laws governing correct design.
They petitioned the government to take
such steps as would insure the des!red
education. They received no attention.
However their predictions were soon VEN,
fed; when at the Exhibition OF
the Worlds Industries OF All Nations,
held in London in 1851, England found
herself at the bottom of the list in respect
| 10 excellence Of design Of her msnutsc'
| lures. Alarmed at this discovery the gov.
eminent appointed commissioner investl,
gate the matter find the cause and point
| out the remedy.
After n careful and extended investiga-
ton they returned the verdict that the
cause of the inferiority Of British manutae-
lures Law in the deficient technical educa-
ton OF the British artisan. =.
That those countries that were absorbing
their trade were pre-eminent in their mana
features in proportion to the attention they
| gave 10 the art and scientific education
| of their masses; the influence arising from
| the art education entering most largely IN
TO the results And in conclusion they ad-
| yised the speedy establishment OF an edlca-
| lion department of art and science. This
gave a stimulus to the subject throughout
The country. Schools Of design
we're established in many cities.
Within FIVE wears the attendance at these
| schools increased to twenty thousand. and
drawing was made fundamental feature
| in public and parish schools. Indeed. with
out this preliminary training OF the public
| schools the object Of schools Of design could
not he accomplished.
What was the result OF this awaken
ing?
| England occupying one or the high posi-
| tons among the nations, in those same de
| partments of manufactures in regard to
which she stood the lowest in the exposition
| of 1851; and this surprising advance was
I due wholly to the education in industrial
art which England had, during the interven.
ing time, so generously offered to oil classes
| of her people.
The Nottingham lace owes its celebrity
TO the beauty Of its designs, and there 10 no
doubt that this result is due to the fact
that their elementary drawing is
part Of every childs education;
| so that in public schools foundation is
laid, which prepares the pupils to receive
the more 'advanc ed teaching Of the admira-
bic Nottingham school OF design.
The pupils of this school furnish the de-
signs which are executed in the lace fac.
tories. The undoub,ed practical utility OF
education in industrial art 10 the manuiac'
turing people, is clearly demonstrated by
tho improvement Of English manufacturers
between the time OF the London exposition
and that Of the Paris exPosition--a period
Of sixteen years.
Besides the improvement in those manu-.
features in which beauty Of design and
ornament are required the influence was
felt in every trade where perception Of form
and education by the hand are required.
The carpenter, the stone worker, the iron
worker, the cabinet maker, aud in fact all
artisans were enabled to produce better
work. Nor is this astonishing, for how can
the man who cannot draw the most simple
carve be expected to have 30 correct an eye
for form and a true Judgment Of the proper
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as the man Of cultivated eye and trained
hand2
| II has been stated by competent judges
that through the instruction given in indus
rial drawing in the public schools com
bired with the establishment Of schools oil
design and art museums and the influence
exerted thereby, England has added fifty
| per cent 10 the value Of her manufactures
articles during the past thirty years, and i
she progresses at this rate England will soor
dispute with France the superiority Of work
in industrial art.
In France Belgium. Switzerland and
some parts of Germany and Austria III,
| technical education afforded the masses i
still better, and invariably we find the re
snlts Of this higher education embodied in I
higher grade Of manufactures.
| England gives thousands OF pounds an
nually in exchange for fine silks, china ware
elegant pottery, fine plate, tapestries, car
PETS ribbons, artistic iron work, wood cary
ing and all those articles in the manufsc
iure Of which artistic taste and skill are nee
esssry.
The greater part ofthese imports are from
France. We may then expect to find tier
more widely difused art culture amonl
The working people We find that the gov
eminent lays greater emphasis upon draw
ing in the education considered requisite u
produce skilled workman, than upon an
other study. Indeed, it may b. said tina
one-fourth ofthe time given 70 the artisan
education is devoted 10 the subject Of draw
ing.
i Besides the education given in the publ
schools, they have free schools of design
and in connection With many MANI
fsetorlfS. museums containing such art
cles 90 cultivate the artistic taste an
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