Caption: Course Catalog - 1879-1880
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78 Illinois Industrial University. of ordinary ability who faithfully completes this course will be qualified to teach drawing and designing in Public Schools, or enter professions with great advantage in the various branches of industry, where artistic skill and taste are indispensible to success. FIRST TERM. (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 TERM. 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 < > Early Art. THIRD TERM. Outline Drawing and Shading from Casts of Ornament; Application of decorative forms 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). FOURTH TERM. (Clay and Wax Modelling.) 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 cast; History of Styles of Ornament. FIFTH TERM. 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; Physics on Lettering. SIXTH TERM. 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 the above course with thoroughness 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, viz: Decorative and Pictorial. The teacher
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