The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-06-14
THE ART ACADEMY
Something Of Interest About This Ideal of
the Ladies.


the Ladies.
The ladies are pushing right ahead
laying the foundation stone in the
public mind for the establishment of
the great art and industrial school
that promises such Commensurate
and imperishable benefit to Austin
and the great state of Texas. The
enormous increase in our population,
the near possibilities of our great man
ufacturing interests and the mass of
our people demand the immediate es-
adjustment of this branch of educa-
tional industry and the furtherance of
the movement evidences the true
spirit of advancement IN the part of
our women.
The rudimentary principles of high
art and Industrial, art almost identi-
cal, q knowledge of free hand drawing
being essential Tor the illustration OF
both. In the academy OF art every
faculty will be furnished for the at.
tainment of practical knowledge as
we'll as the technicalities and intri-
cacies included within the realm OF
art in it's arbitrary sense.
There will be departments in free
hand and mechanical drawing, in
technical and decorative designing,
including wall paper designing, car
pets, rug patterns, silks, table linen,
book covers, tiles, textiles, stained
glass, etc., furniture making and all
the various branches that come
within the domain Of industrial arts.
There will be department of do
mestic science, including millinery
and dressmaklng, where the
students will be given lessons
in free hand drawing to enable
them to sketch drapery, originate de-
signs for hats, bonnets, etc., decorate
homes and develope and enlarge all
their God given talents.
This academy will offer every ad-
vantage alike to girls and boys who
desire to put their brains and hands
to use and will induce healthier
tone in society in regard to the EN-.
ployment of women. The ar.
chitect will fud here every
facility for the study OF
his craft - in which the aesthetic
and practical elements blend and
work together, in which beauty and
serviceableness mus5 be considered
and through the cultivating and
broadening of that precious quality
called taste, learn the immensely u
the difference between true aechitec.
ture and mere construction, and the
mere possibility of unitarian struc.
ture being made work of art.
We all in measure, more or less,
value the tine arts, and while We may
not in years, develop the nigh techni-
cal perfection and daring conception
that crowned with fadeless fame the
Florentime masters of the Sixteenth
century, or send forth into the world
as did Raphael, beautiful creations is
suing like stream of "goldent but
terflesr from his studio, until the gar
dens OF Italy were filled with culver.
ering radient masterpieces-we may
never attain to the marvellous perfec.
ton, that has rendered immortal the
"age of Pericles," but we can drink of
the fountain of knowledge offered to
us until, should we enter these
mysterious, ancient sanctuaries
in the days to come, we will not fipd
the sibyls dumb, the oracles so unre-
sponsive We must perforce take our
departure with weRriues and empti-
ness of heart az our portion. or remem-
Der Rome as did the travelled young
lady, because she had bought there
"a pair Of pink stockings"