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74 Illinois Industrial University. SECQND TEKM. 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. THIBD TERM. Outline Drawing and Shading from Casts of O.'nament; App ication 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 Kelievo Ornament from the Solid. Features and the Human Head from description; Relievo Ornament from shaded copies or drawings; Original Designs for decorative pnrposes ; Enlargements and Redaction from casts ; 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. SIXTH TERM. General review of the principal work done; Specimen plates to he 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 COURSE 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 Monoclyjome; Composition drawing from description ;_Memory Exercises.
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