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

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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.

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THE SPIRIT SPEAKS

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Why Have We а Fourth Y ear? DorotHy GANN Why Study Fine Arts? Camp WEYAND Why Study Modelling? ARPAD STANEK We Thank the Library. SARAH Loro We Thank Newark. MARION OSTERMANN Why the “Ye Paint Pot”? Laurette WisserT Why the After School Life Class? Jean LAUER Why Call It Arts and Crafts? МОМА Ow ENS CAMPEN Why the Quick Sketch? R. Jona Why Study Antique? Евер W. DREBER Hats and Why? Емпу Naco The Art of Dieing? RALPH KOEGEL Why Saturday Classes? E. L. MARTIN America’s Contribution to Art. Why Geometric Jewelry? Ертн GUSTAFSON To satisfy the urgent desires of an enthusiastic three-year day class, to further their knowledge of landscape, of poster, of cos tume or of interior decoration, to give the eligible students a teacher’s training course, is indeed reason enough for a fourth year. We study the Fine Arts so that we can understand and appreciate painting, sculpture and architecture and that we, too, may be- come artists and contribute to the world of beauty. We study modelling so that we can fashion with our fingers the designs we would like to execute in wood, marble or bronze. We take this means of thanking once more the Newark Public Library for throwing its doors open to our students at all times. We would also like to thank the librarians for the help they have always rendered us. We thank citizens of Newark for coming so ably to our assistance when we asked for their help in making this year book а súccess by giving us their ads. We day students have instituted the production of the yearly magazine called “Ye Paint Pot”. All the articles, all the designs used were executed by the students. We have after school classes so that the enthusiastic students may have a chance of continuing their study of the nude. Because articles combining both a practical and decorative value are made in the arts and crafts classes. The artist catches an illusive effect. He records an action with a few lines. Later on in his studio he dreams, daubs and develops his idea. Because it is the finest art of all time. All fundamental principles are found in these works of the old masters. Every conscientious student should study the antique. Hats on! That's where they belong. They must be comfortable, in style, and suit the personality of the wearer. To die or not to die. Be a die cutter if you are neat, patient, artis- tically inclined and keen of eye and mind. And if you want to. Night students become like owls prowling out after the sun has set, so now they are given an opportunity to enjoy working in daylight. The Set-back Law will bring forth from designers a new style of Architecture; a real contribution from America to Art. The geometric patterns, originated by the Greeks, have never been surpassed because they tend toward simplicity in which we find the greatest beauty.