Caption: Course Catalog - 1881-1882
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72 Illinois Industrial University. SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN. PROFESSOR PETER ROOS. 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 courses may require. 2. It 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 fouud important aids to the higher manufacturers, adding to the beauty of fabrics and to the skill and taste of workmen. The increased interest in the decorative arts and in the manufactures which they require has added new importance to the study of drawing and designing. It is the purpose to keep this school of design abreast with the best movements in this direction. COURSE OV INSTRUCTION. Students nqt seeking a professional training may yet avail themselves of the two years' course in industrial art. Any person of ordinary ability who faithfully completes this course will be qualified to teach drawing and designing in the 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 r ompound 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 onventional Arrangement, Harmonious Lines and Distribution of Form ; Perspective Drawing of Objects, Plants, etc.; Features of the Human Head; History of 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 ( ontrast of Color, (Lectures on Art and its History). FOURTH TERM. (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 Orna-
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