Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Teacher's Manual for the Prang Course in Drawing for Graded Schools: Books 1-6
The authors have arranged the work of this Course so that pupils shall first observe and study the forms of models and objects, and shall then express by draw ing what they have observed in the forms of the models and objects studied. By the presentation of models of type forms, associated with familiar objects, the senses are addressed, the attention is awakened, the powers of observation are incited, the mind is stirred to action, thought ensues. Drawing and Color are then introduced, not simply as a means of training the eye and hand, but as a language by which the pupil not only expresses but impresses his thought. Still further, in the making required in the study of the models and objects, the ability to use the hands is trained and encouraged, the creative faculties are developed, and thus manual train ing, with all its healthful in?uences, is begun. Pupils going through this Course will not only be led, through the cultivation of their observing powers, to take a lively interest in the forms of objects around them, but will also become conscious of the power of expressing their ideas of such forms by drawing, whether with regard to their facts as seen in working-drawings, to their appearance as seen in pictures, or to their decoration; at the same time, while the eye has been trained to observe, and the hand to draw, the mind has been constantly unfolding through perception, thought and expression.
Still further, it is a distinct aim in this Course to lead pupils to an appreciation and love of the beautiful as found in Nature and as expressed in the hand-work of man. What man has done, what he has created, is Art.
It is the hope also of the authors that the work in this Course may lead teachers and pupils to a free use of Drawing and Color as an aid in other studies. Drawing, especially, should be as much at the command of every teacher and every pupil as writing and speaking, and should be as freely used.
It is hoped, therefore, that teachers will seek every opportunity to apply the work in other studies, and will encourage pupils to use it as a means of expression generally in their school lessons.
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