Caption: Course Catalog - 1883-1884
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Additional Schools. SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN. PBOFESSOE PETER ROOS. 73 This School is to subserve a two-fold purpose. . 1. It affords to the students of ihe sei eral colleges the opportunity to acquire such a knowledge of free-hand drawing as their chosen course may require. 2. It offers to such as hav • a talent or taste for art the best facilities for pursuing studies ia industr.al designing or other branches of fine art. Schools of design, in Europe and in this country, have been found important aids to the higher manufacturers, adding to the beauty of fabrics and to the s;.ill and laste of workmen. The increased interest in the decorative arts and in the manufactures which they require has adde.l new importance to the study of drawing and designing. It is the purpose to keep this school of ;esign abreast with the best movements in this direction. COURSE Or INSTRUCTION. Students not peeking a professional training may yet avail themselves of the two ye.-.rs' 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 to enter professions with great adva.itage in the various branches of industry, where artistic skill and taste are iQdispensible to success. FIRST TERM (Exercises in Outline.) Klements of form; analysis of compound forms; elementary designs; elementary prespective by aid of objects; elements of histoiic 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; per. spective drawing of objects, plants, etc.; features of the human head; history of early art. THIRD TERM. Outline drawing and shading from casts oi ornament; application of decorative forms to flat and round surfaces under various conditions; designs ior specified objects; advanced perspective and shadows; harmony and contrast 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; orginal designs for decorative pur poses; enlargements and reduction from casts; history of styles of ornament. 10
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