Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The School Arts Book, Vol. 6: September, 1906 to June, 1907
Wereturnnowtoyourboywhohasleamedtodraw, andyet is not artistic. He is so common that I need not enlarge on him. The like remark holds true of any other of the many technical opera tions involved in the production of beautiful things. In eflect, one doesnotbecomeartisticbyacquiringskillofhand. Itisworth while to remind ourselves of this now and then. Moreover, one does not become artistic by reading about painters and sculptors and their works;orbylearningto tellgothicfrom Grecianarchitec ture, or Moorish from Celtic ornament; or by doing or learning most of the other things the doing or learning of which is usually designated as Art Study. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
