Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1878 [PAGE 168]

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168 SCHOOL O F A R T A N D D E S I G N . This school is to subserve a two-fold purpose. 1. It affords to the students of the several colleges the opportunity to acquire such a knowledge of free-hand drawing as their chosen course may require. 2. I t offers to such as have a talent or taste for art, the best facilities for pursuing studies in industrial designing or other branches of fine art. Schools of design, in Europe and in this country, have been found important aids to the higher manufactures, adding to the beauty of fabrics and to the skill and taste of workmen. The school is under charge of Professor Peter Baumgras, an artist of good reputation, and a graduate of the art school of Munich, Bavaria.

COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.

T h e course in industrial art and designing occupies two years, and if faithfully followed, will fit students to become efficient designers in the various branches of industry in which artistic skill and taste are indispensible to success. The course is divided into four stages, as follows: STAGE A. Elements of form ; analysis of compound forms ; outline drawing on paper and blackboard ; principles of shading; elementary designs; lectures on a r t ; descriptive geometry. STAGE B. Shading with pencil, chalk, pen, charcoal, ink and sepia; monochrome and distempera color; perspective ; drawing from models and common objects ; elementary designs from elements of plant and animal f o r m s ; designs for specified objects; lectures on art and its history. STAGE C. Shading from models and casts; outlines from natural foliage; botany as applied to ornamentation; harmony and contrasts in color ; optical and physical principles underlying color in nature ; contrasts in design; styles and history of ornamentation ; higher linear perspective and shadows; lectures on art. STAGE D . Drawing from statuary, casts and models ; drawing and sketching from n a t u r e ; compositions in ornamental and industrial a r t ; compositions in monumental and pictorial designs ; analysis in ornamental a r t ; se sthetics ; water color and oil painting; lectures on art history.

ADVANCED COURSE I N ART AND D E S I G N .

This course comprises the regular branches of figure, portrait and landscape painting; designing and illustrating on wood ; modeling in clay, wax, etc. It is designed for those who wish to become teachers, or to pursue painting and designing as a profession. Special art students will be received for this course, and allowed to devote their whole attention to the art studies. Students completing the full course in Industrial Designing will receive a certificate from the school. Fee for special students, Ten Dollars the term.