Modelling

Аннотация

This book contains in short limits the essence of the subject it is, so to speak, the summary of a method, a sort of guide which gives the primary indications of the way. I must insist again and again on this point, that the aim of Art-teaching should be to put within the pupil's grasp all that is necessary to help him to express his thoughts by the simplest, surest and quickest means. It should in particular sharpen his observation, without too much influencing his own judgment and when the student's judgment goes astray, he should be corrected by model or example, placed before him without his perceiving the intention,—for fear of making him lose his own power of judging and as drawing is the principal foundation of Sculpture, and a good sculptural work depends largely on good drawing, the student should draw as much as, if not more than, a student of painting.—(which unfortunately is not always done). No student ought to be admitted to modelling in a school, unless he has first done some serious drawing and on this understanding I begin this guide,—always addressing myself to a student who is capable of seeing a line and executing it properly.