Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art - Fawcett Yearbook (Newark, NJ)

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THE SPIRIT SPEAKS

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THE TRIUMVIRATE )esign (exulting): I am everywhere! I live in everything! the great spaces. I rule the Universe! Color (unperturbed) : Yes, but I rule you. Design: Away, away! Color: I would, but cannot. Design: Then I will go. Color: No use, | would only follow. Design: You shadow me, you dominate me, you try to destroy me, but I will The tiny corner, escape. Color: You cannot escape. Without me, you cannot be. When I go, your existence is done. | Design: Хо, it cannot ђе so! Color: Itisso! It is the truth! (Enter Beauty— distracted, wan). Beauty: Why will you renew this futile dispute? The great laws of the Universe will prevail. Color and Design: But we are parts of the Universe! Beauty: As such, you must obey its laws. O stupid ones! Be calm and hear me! Without Color, Design cannot be. How to show your beauties, your lovely forms, if light gleams not forth? When it fades, you, too, grow dim; when color is gone you, too, have vanishéd. Live in peace and harmony, otherwise you kill me. As you love me, control your selfish whims. Then we three will rule supreme. Esther L. Martin. MILLINERY Тће hat of today, although it appears to be simple, is really an extremely subtle combination of color, line and form. То build an attractive hat is an achievement. There are many necessary details to be mastered, but this foundation must be rounded out and enriched with a knowledge of the principles of color and design. The success of the millinery expert is measured by her skill in combining manual dexterity with artistic inspiration. M. H. Gervenak. Throughout the world there is a hunger for art, a desire within every human being to bring art into closer relationship with life, thus making more complete our appreciation of all that is beautiful. The desire for art in its relationship to the home is creating a great demand for arts and crafts classes. There the student works out his art interests in objects which have beauty and utility. Through his efforts to enrich his home with beauty, he enriches his own life, thus winning the artist's greatest reward. Nona Owens Campen, of the Arts and Crafts Class. — —

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WHY? Why Design? LILLIAN MILLER What the Museum Means to the School. PAULINE SWEENEY Why a Beautiful Newark? Jean Morris We Thank the Newark Art Club. Eısıe Кои, Why Poster? LYMAN CONGER Why Interior Decoration? Marie KisLinG Why Portrait? Georce Foy Why Attend Exhibits? Mary Ryan Why Study Figure? FREDERICK MAURER The Exhibition of the Museum. Marie Cuozzo Why Study Landscape? Lyman CoNGER WHY? WHY? In design we are taught the rudiments of composition, rhythm and symmetry. In fact the basis of all good work is “Design.” We go to the Museum for inspiration, to study the works of others and to do research work. Fawcett pupils are most fortu- nate in having such a splendid cooperation with the Newark Museum, for the officials are ever ready and willing to help the students in any possible way. A city creating a beautiful atmosphere for the life of its people is usually one which occupies a constructive place in the history of the world. Newark, to realize the ambition of из founders, must be beautiful not only in its parks and public buildings, but in every phase of its being. We art students are trying, in our little way, to make our city still more beautiful. Due to the benevolence of the Newark Art Club the students of our school have been able to attend excellent lectures given by renowned artists at a minimum cost. The Club has also furnished enthusiasm in the Poster classes by a tempting offer for a suitable poster for each lecture. To tell the wide world what it's all about. That's the poster idea. Poster is the two-fold job. It earns one person his bread and sells the other fellow's goods. It is the one means of joining the public and the merchant. We study interior decoration to learn the application of the prin- ciples of form and color, to the problems of making our homes more attractive. Why a portrait? To please our friends? To satisfy our vanity? To hand down to posterity the beaming likeness of ourselves? Perhaps to keep the proverbial wolf from an artist's door. Ask me another. To give us a better appreciation of the fine arts. To give us a better idea of design. To keep us in touch with the rest of the world of arts. To broaden our own viewpoints. What is so beautiful as the human figure? We who are ever striving for perfection must study God's masterpiece if we want to know anything about art. 'The Museum is indispensable to the art student because the mas- terpieces of the world's great artists аге to be found there. This year at the Newark Museum we had an architectural, water color, poster and rug exhibition which greatly helped to develop our knowledge of commercial art. Why do we study landscape? To give one a glimpse of nature's vastness and to reproduce on canvas her fleeting moods.