The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1914-03-05
The W0mans Club
Edited By The womans Club

! pictures of animal and child life, pic
lures with an evident story. For olde
pupils most any of the pictures b!
good artists will do except those from
medieval and early Renaissance paint
ings which are more appropriate t.
J later studies. You will teach test
those pictures which mean the most tt
! you, therefore, l shall not suggest
what pictures you ought to teach oil
how you ought to teach them.
AS to how you should begin picture
study will say you have made most
excellent beginning by having the pic
lures you have named before your
pupils. How shall you interpret them?
1t has been said that what we get
from picture is determined largely
by what we bring to it. once heard
a girl say in looking at the Angelus,
81 am so tired of seeing those old clod
hoppers. But to Henry Drummond it
spoke of 1.-The three greatest things in
life, love. work and worship. Stand
ing before it hear the distant bell
calling to prayers and often pray with
the devout peasants. l feel the hush
of evening and in the reverent figures
the embodiment of the poor of this
world, rich in faith, we feel that the All
Father is bending in love above man,
who stops for worship even amid his
labors. Of course another way to
study it is as to the manners and GUS
toms of France. Geography and his
tory can be brought into most every
picture. The life of the artist is also
interesting.
In the picture Lost" We see in the
heart of a binding snow storm the
flock huddled together, benumbed with
cold and fear Near them are the two
faithful dogs, one, with raised head is
trying with what little strength is left
him to rouse his masterwho is PROSTATE
before the wayside cross, deaf to all
earthly sounds. The picture tells a
story without words. No human soul can
interpret to another the depths of mean
ing in the words beginning, Let not
your heart be troubled" So it is with
great work of art, you may ask ques-
tons that bring out its technical quail
ties, we may know the life of the artist
and be told about it. but we shall not
know the picture until it has spok en- to
each of US directly and brought to US a
personal message too deep for words.
Schenck, like Landseer with his dogs,
makes his sheep almost human in sem
timent. Their emotions he paints with
loving touch and true to nature.
Their natural timidity, their shelter
seeking. their easily excited fear can
all be brought out in the study of the
picture.
Hoffman's Christ and the Doctors is
beautiful indeed and without a fault,
and this artist is one of the very few
who have given US the face of Christ
which nearest corresponds to our ideal.
But beauty alone would not hold the
attention of these men of wisdom, he
has made them thoughtful of the words
he is so earnestly speaking to them.
Each face in the picture is study by
itself as they form a circle in which
the figure of Christ stands clothed in
purity and radiance. Here is an op-
portunity for the teacher to give a
lesson that shall endure forever.
AS we have SAID, no one can really
interpret picture for another, but a
few well directed questions will set
the children to looking and thinking
and then we venture to add. questions
will be asked, and it means something
for child to ask a sensible question
even if nobody can be found to answer
it.
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