Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1884 [PAGE 47]

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P I E S T TEEM.

(Exercises in outline.) Elements of Form; Analysis of Compound forms; Elementary Designs: Elementary Perspective by aid of objects; Elements of Historic Ornaments; Memory Exercises.

SECOND TEEM.

Enlargement and Shading from copy; Ornamental Designs from plant form; Naturalistic and Conventional Arrangement; Harmonious Lines and Distribution of Form; Perspective Drawing of Objects, Plants, etc.; Features of the Human Head; History of Early Art.

THIED TEEM.

Outline Drawing and Shading from Casts of Ornament; Application of Decorative Jorms to flat and round surfaces under various conditions; Designs for specified objects; Advanced Perspective and Shadows; Harmony and Contrast of Color, (Lectures on Art and its History.)

FOUETH TEEM.

{Clay and Wax Modeling.) Basso Relievo Ornament from the Solid. Features and the Human Head from description; Relievo Ornament from shaded copies or Drawings; Original Designs for decorative purposes; Enlargements and Reduction from casts; History of Styles of Ornament.

FIFTH TEEM.

Shading from Statuary, Casts, etc.; Drawing of Landscape and Animals from copy in charcoal and sepia; color applied to Decorative Art; designs for useful objects; perspective drawings of interiors of rooms.

SIXTH TEEM.

General review of the principal work done; Specimen plates to be completed; Optical and Physical principles of color in Nature; Aerial Perspective; Sketching from Nature in charcoal and color; Artistic Anatomy of Form and Proportion, by illustrated lectures; famous artists and their principal works.

Students having passed satisfactorily in the above course will be permitted to enter the advanced classes. The following course is for those who wish to become accomplished either as designers, painters or teachers. In order that the student may acquire thoroughness in the branch he wishes to pursue as a specialty, the subject has at this stage been formed into two divisions, decorative and pictorial. The teacher student must give attention to both branches, and with him theory will necessarily supersede practice. Opportunities will be afforded such pupils to teach in the elementary classes, whereby greater efficiency will be acquired.

SPECIAL COUESE IN PAINTING.

Trees, Animals and Figures from copy and from Nature, in pencil, charcoal and sepia; Aerial Perspective. Anatomy of Expression; External muscular development; Shading from Statuary in charcoal and monochrome; Composition drawing from description; Memory Exercises. Water-color Painting from pictures; Sketching from Nature in sepia and water colors; Copying from Oil Paintings of Portraits and Landscapes. Sketching froin Nature in oil-colors; Rapid studies of interiors with varied arrangement of light and shade; Pictorial composition, introducing figures of animals; Theory and History of Art. . Portrait Painting from life; Pictures finished from sketches; Studying of Groups of Still Life subjects; Painting of ideal compositions of one or more heads; Chemistry of color.