The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-16


please pupils and parents and too often
teachers. We do not awrite words for
mere show; we want the idea the
thought, back of the expression. Drawing
is nothing if it is not putting things, in
their right place: of what use is a line
il it is not in the right place, if it means
nothing, expresses nothing?
The practice of art trains the judg-
men-to Judge, 10 judge vertically, TO
judge horizontally, to Judge height and
width; the greatest height and the great
est width, and every height and every
width; to block in and leave blocked in;
to simplify and see that there is beauty
in simplicity, and that such a thing as
imitation is false. Accurate observation
leads 10 correct judgment, and compre-
hensive observation leads to broader
thinking in regard to a greater variety of
individual things and their true relation
ship to each other. A great portion of
human thought depends on conceptions
OF size, form, color and relationships. Art
training cultivates new and exact apper-
cepuve centerS of size. form, color and
relationships, and defines Judgment.
One of the most important advantages
of an art training comes from its useful
ness in revealing the child to himself. 1t
is an important epoch in the life of a
child when it gains the consciousness of
expression may be made the means of
self-revelatiOn, no other form exceeds this
for making clear to the child the trans
forming truth that II was intended to be
more than an imitator and follower The
highest school processes are those that
do most to develop the child's originality
and apply it to lines of utility and aeS-
thetic culture. There should be no bar
rem lives. No man accomplishes his true
destiny who fails to put forth some
thought or product that will make il cas-
Ter for his fellow man to be happy and to
attain q more complete development. Art
develops originality and helps men to aid
IN the increase of human wisdom and
power by the production of new thought
Of new power and new appliances.
No teacher should ever be satisfied I'M
less the thought implanted in the mind of
the child comes forth in improved form,
charged with new life and dynamic power
through the child's individuality. Mis-
takes have been made in teaching draw
ing. do not speak of it in the old sense
of copying from the fiat. making lines
and reciting definitions. This had little
or nothing in it that developed selfhood.
In music; the instruments. the hand, the
voice and the ear have been trained but
the soul that should originate the music
has been left to chance development
Even the art of oral expression has been
made a. process of imitation. 1t is doubt
full whether it is possible to cultivate the
habit Of repea ting the thoughts of others
in the exact language of others without
weakening selfhOod and the powers of
self-eXpreSsiOn. There is no .dodbt what
ever that we may be trained TO express
most admirably the thoughts of others.
III the language of others. without HAVING
our powers of Self-eXpresSion improved
by the process. Oft-repeated drill. as mere
drill, has been too much practiced as a
means of defining and establishing GER
tain powers of the mind and hand. Drill
divorced from Self-eXpresSion cannot re-
tain interest. and without interest there
can be no lasting benefit to the child. All
true growth is from within outward All
drill for drills sake attempts the unnat-
ural to produce growth from without in
ward
Imagination is the foundation for all
the constructive arts the builder machin-
lnUanTOv q no or let
and poet, lives in the imagina ton. Wher-
ever inert wood, heavy stone. dull, cold
iron and steel have been made to come
into life and join hands to produce a
/ bridge, an engine, a dwelling house, a
printing press, there you find human i'm
agination at the heart Of it. positive
clear and creative. CAPTIVATING the aes-
thetic nature kindles the imagination and
quickens the conscience. Through the i'm
agination we put ourselves in the place
, of another: without imagination there car
be no sympathy for others. The imagina-
tive man is indignant at the preparation
of a wrong and feels for the time that he
is the victim Of the wrong. Through the
imagination we become coSmODolitan
cultiVating the aesthetic creates an at
mosphere in which the proprieties, the
amenities and virtues unconSciously grow
The latest testimony or the scientist is
that the study of the harmonious and
beautiful builds cell tissues in the brain
that makes for the harmonious in all re-
lationS of life. One high in authority. the
OlTtCIpF % OIIlillISOHlsill Institute, TeceHt-
~ declared that if all the people could
study the beautiful in color and form
prisons and police courts would soon be
eliminated
Art should form a part of the education
of every child. so that he may enjoy the
productions of the human mind and the
beauty and uplifting suggest iveness OF
nature. The poet and artist interpret foi
us at every point; Robert Browning shows
us this when he makes Fra, Lippo Lippo
a middle century artist monk, say:
love