The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-10-28

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 and masses. lights and darks, hues and intensities of color.
 The Design
 'To say, therefore, that a person is well dressed is to say, mother fashion, that the design produced is good. To say that a. house is well decorated is to assert the same fact in another phrase. The wel1-arranged shop win dow, the beautiful park, the striking facade of some great cathedral are all designs and are all bsead upon the same principles which underlie the making of an attractive poster or 8 we1-spaced letter-head.
 Everyone Creates
 ''The statement. then. that each in his way is an artist is not far fetched. for each must design in some fashion daily. Many to be sure Are ignorant of the first principles of the art they unconsciously practice, and many in consequence make woeful errors in the designs they create. The point, however, lies in the fact that they do ter how bad they be. And right here lies the significance of any teaching which can bring its lessons so close ly home. No appeal is quite keen as one that touches our persons Everyone likes to be thought of good taste and IS anxious to learn the secret. A study which reveals this secret can never appear a 'frill." Its interest is too widespread. it's ap- plication too immediate.
 Further than this, it can be shown to the business man that everything which serves to raise the taste of the public serves also 70 create a demand for finer things. To affect the public most surely it must seen, it is evident that in our teach ing of art in the public schools. as something flor use" lies the m ost cer- tain method of raising the standards of taste for the entire community. This means better markets and moro intelligent purchasers.
 Training the Many and the Few
 ''In the class room, the teaching of art primarily as industrial design has h double advantage, It serves equal ly as a desirable approach to the great mass of pupils with but little talent, and to the few who have talent in them, the power of becoming skilled craftsmen.
 ITO the many the study of design opens the simplest and most attrac- tive path to lessons which deal with the art which they see about them. These pupils gre gifted with but mod crate ability, and can have their power to see and to draw developed only along limited lines But they can have their power of appreciation vastly strengthened by their effort to create good decoration. In that ef- fort they are constantly called upon to contract forms good and bad. It is this training of judgment which makes for discrimination.
 Practical Art to the Many
 Thus, the art to be taught to the many is never to be reckoned in terms of technique, but always in terms of taste. By it's teaching they are to be made aestheticaIly reac- tive to their surroundings. This means that they are to learn through efforts to decorate simple articles Of oress, to design simple constructed forms, and to develop we'll planned signs and posters. that all about them art appears And further, they are to learn how far in these divers forms it has followed the principles of sound decoraton-where, in other words, it is good and where bad. This form of teaching seeks to develop appre- c1at1on, not by talking about it but through the endeavor to create de- sign in motifs and patterns fit and well-adapted to the objects decorated Beauty, through such lessons, is seen to be no abstract thing, no i1lusive quality about which the teacher hapso- dizes, but a rise in their own power ot response to what is fine in line, form and color. This is art teaching which the many can understand It is art in use
 The Many vs The Few
 Every great group of pupils sees, gifted, beyond their mates. These. as against ''the many" we may term the few" They are the pupils of talent who can be trainZd to powers Of original expression, valuable not only to themselves, but to the coun- try at large. In our present crisis we need their talent urgently.
 Industrial Art For The Few
 For the few industrial design is the most effective means of di- recting their talent toward the field in which it can be turned to greatest advantage. The effort should be to discover their ability early in their high school career, for they are of the type of student that. squares with diff ficulty with the formal school curri- and work in color, but in the 'attics' and the ologies' they learn fndifrer- ent1y we'll Under direction they can rapidly be taken forward in their speciality. They will work at it long and well. But obliged to fit into scholastic grooves which deny their talent opportunity for expression, they chage and gird at school and early seek to escape it's bondage
 Faster Talent
 For the talented, therefore, the study of industrial design offers a way out. Their talent. once diseov- cred, means should be found for fos- tering it through special courses and opportunity for advanced study The aim should be to keep them under the influence of the school as long as poss1ble-to develop in them d power of concentrated application. aud later schools where their talent may be trained to its greatest effectiveness. Delaware Sailors
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