The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-01-31
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The Value of Az IN the Publie
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art in public education.
There are many arguments TO be
advanced for giving art place In
the school program.
To begin at the bottom, it will
develop a power for accuracy. Me
chanically accuracy is desirable in
any kind OF manual work, while
the ability to observe correctly and
record faithfully the observation Is
fundamental requirement of scien
tific minds. BETTER yet. the study
of drawing develops imaginative
power. Was IL ever brought to YOU
that the root Of imagination is I'm
age-tlat TO imagine is to recall or
recomJine images? And did it ever
occur to you that every great
achievement was first done in imag.
iration? No bridge or skyscraper was
ever built. no engine ever annihi-
lated space or furnished the power OF
myriad horses campaign ever al
tered the direction of the worlds
afiairs-no business deal ever caused
millions Of dollars to change hands
none of the acts that influence hui
man events vas ever consummated
that was not first accomplished by
that wonderful power of the mind
to associate and reassociatc the va
rious sensatory impressions II re-
ceives: the Imagination II Is hv
means of this power that We may
build for ourselves out OF that
which Is perfect-ideals that are
living and growing becoming higher
az human life becomes higher-al.
ways just ahead to be approached,
but not attained China is an exam.
ideals. COnfucius founded n system
OF ideals. the mos. nearly perfect
he knew, and they were fiXed-mum
mified in stone. as II werc-the Chi.
nCse attained to their best, and stop
pcd-China has made no progress
since then We can rot shut the
rainbow in the stone. but must eX.
p"riancc it anew for ourselves. see
ing new beauty and greater perfec.
tion therein as at each sight We
bring u II all the experience of
the past
- al .t uniA .sin N
to rs the powerful effect that col.
| o.s have upon our emotions and
/ nerves We have always felt certain
colors to be "of good TASTE" while
/ others were condemned as poor
/ taste Ii choice of color in personal
! belongings or surroundings stamps
/ a person as refined or coarse, and.
more than that, influences largely
his very disposition. Is it not i'm
! portant that he be given opportuu'
! ~ to learn what men have found
! out about it? Along with the feeling
/ for color. is II not important that
/ lie devlop his appreciation OF and
/ capacity for attaining harmony Of
I form and proportion? 1t seems TO
me that America needs the training
/ that will make the incongruous and
/ the ugly as impossible to all her
/ people as II now Is 10 the very few
/ discriminating ones. Another quail
/ ~ TO be developed by systematic art
study is the appreciation of the di-
I prehension of the essential point IS
the thing to be accomplished and
the straightest way TO the point To
be able TO pierce to the heart of the
matter under discussion, and to han.
die 1t effectively without any waste
| OF time or means, is a distinguishing
mark OF the master mind. Further.
more. there is fundamental JOY In
producing-the pleasure of combin.
ing raw materials into an artistic,
complete and valuable whole--quall.
fled to minister to the needs or
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very slightly fostered In composition
work, Yet this JOY in the work is
the thing that distinguishes the true
man working from the mere work.
man, and lifts him out of the bonds
OF making living" up to the
heights where he lives in the fe.
lowship OF the great spirits of the
ages. Something that l. far more
important in its results than even
the fact that the intrinsic value OF
his product depends largely upon
its harmony OF FORM. proportion.
colo;.
Similarly sound arguments. almost
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