New-York tribune., 1901-12-10
IESTHETIC TRAINING.
PROFESSOR GOODYEAR'S TALK TO
MOTHERS on SCHOOL DECORATION.

The American Indian uses color more correctly
than the people of New-York City We must go TO
barbaric taste IN colGr for instruction. said
Professor ". H. Goodyear. curator Of the Brook
Iyn Institute of Arts AMI Sciences. yesterday at
the meeting of the Mothers Club at the Tuxedo
The subject of his address 'tEsthetic Train
ing for Children He continued:
The parents must learn to appreciate the various
forms Of art i chllaren are 70 nave tne sSaneIIe
that the seeds are implanted
Civilization has done much TO XII art In the
Iae good bIit not so GOOD in the Seventeenth and
in the eighteenth it was bad. There a steady
deterioration civilization progressed and the
characterized by bad color and bad form. Since
1850 there has been a reasonably rapid improve
Inent, those Of US who rernember the atrocities
in furniture. decorative art and buildings OF about
been greatly benefited by coming in closer
with Oriental art, where color taste is perfect
Professor Goodyear spoke Of the movement tow
ard school decoration, and made an earnest plea
for more color prints instead of photographs and
engravings-
The crime ot our age has been the liberation Of
white wallis he said. 1T does not cost anything
10 tint the kalsoTnine. and you can't DO anything
with children surrounded by expanse Of white
wall. 4 great deal is 10 be done in school decora-
ton and much needs be done with some OF the
leaders in the movement.
PICTURES FOR CHILDREN.
IN my opinion. photographs Of the Sistine Ma
donna and the Venus of Milo are not Of much value
10 Young people under twenty years OF age Sub
jects in color that would appeal TO children would
be far better, and Il the color is good chrome Of
such subject may be useful in developing color
taste fine painting
Miss Crerlns. assistant director OF art in the
public schools the next speaker, and told the
club what is being done TO train the aesthetic sense
Of the children. IF to formulate a sue
cessful course of study she declared. we must
drop the idea that the child's mind is small copy
of our own and must look to mis- own instincts and
activities Every child likes to make things. and.
having made them. TO decorate them We teach
him first in the primary grades. TO decorate with
one color then with tints of a color, in order
tc guard against a bad combination We have late
L. adopted the plan of having the older grades
and we find that it stimulates their interest i'm
mensely. Children like TO feel that their Work IS
useful
teach children interest in picture is 10 teach
them TO dream dreams about it. TO look Tor the
story in il. add from their own imaginations to
the PAINTERS. and put some Of themselves into It
In this way. in other she affirmed. does 1t
become theirs / hope that time We may have
school decorated the children themselves would
have it -,
Mrs Lille Devereux Blake was appointed dele
gate with Mrs H Hastings. the president to the
Convention Of the National Assembly of Mothers,
70 be held IN Washington in February
The new social feature OF refreshments was sue
cesully instituted large number remaining after
the meeting adjourned.