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UNIVERSITY OR OREGON MONTHLY
through p ractice,, hu t 'there are m any well known artists who are
noor .draftsm en; there a re „ m any excellent draftsrnen w h o ^ p ^ ld
n o t/e a rn c a t fare as artists. ! te c h n ic a l skill has the same relation
to the artist as a good voice M:o. the preacher,—it makes his product
„mate pleasing and handicaps him if it, is lacking.
- M odern art schools are, taking this fact seriqqsly and pay quite
aSbiudh attention to originality as to perfection in drawing. | Lake
other educational institutions they are discarding much of their
dogma fand striving t$ tu rn out rnen and’ yeomen com petent to
take up immediately the practice of th e ir profession.
The A rt in s titu te ’jbf C hicago'is one^df th e largest art schools
in the country and may be given as a character Study for them
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The difference between the- student- body of an art, pchó'ol and
>'ny 8 B | educational institution is the lack of any .general plan
of culture o r standard of life. The student body qf an art school
know s no race, c^lpf, age or code of c^hdúct. In
may be found
children scarcely.but-of the kindergarten stage and m en and women
op the down-hill side ¿ ft life. Bullet-headed Japs R uffle in the
hallw ays and long-haired Chinamen jabber at each other. 'H éteos
the negro w ith his tri-ctffored clothes and celluloid collar and the
H indo w ith paint daubed on *his tu rb a n ; the ^Italian eating garlic
and sausage betw een poses and w iping his greasy fingers on the
classic feet of V enus; the frizzled and powdered maiden from the
lake-Shore drive, and the “kid” from Halstead, s tr e e t; the .college
graduate and the yillage- genius, t h e y are all there—over three
thousand of them-
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TaJse the above named ingredients, bottle them up in one large
building, shake well and the cork is. "liablej to fly out., Sometimes
th e "cork does fly out because there are no rules -of conduct ahd
no a t t e m p t / t o keep order. T h e city police ’are* supposed to do
th at, b u t the City’.pólice \are Supposed to do lots of things. «
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In spite, of all these differences in age, r a c e ,‘color and train
ing everything runs- Very smoothly, because the great majority
come w ith’ serious intentions; of .'becoming artists and endeavor
to make good use, of their tipié.
of all this num ber there are com paratively few who suc
cumb to the “artistic tem peram ent.’* As much as this disease is
talked of i,n the comic supplement, the germ does not thrive well
ip artZéchooIs. \Its sym ptom s are long hair', baggy trousers, large
t ie_ t i e d carelessly—slouch hat—worn on ‘ the left ear—a half