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

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COSTUMING NHIE fingers and minds of many unite in making the citizens of America the best dressed in the world. No matter where one turns one cannot escape seeing examples of the costumer’s art. The neatly dressed =— Woman, the well-groomed man, both expressing themselves in their clothes. Some are born with a natural instinct for choosing the right clothes, but others must use the shop win- dows for inspiration and turn as children to those who know best. Different figures and colorings, even personalities, must be considered in the designing of ready made clothes. Thus the de- signer of costumes finds his place in the world satisfying the de- mands of the hurried mortals who must be smartly dressed. The Art School gives a foundation in this work. Here we learn the blending of color and fabrics, beauty of line, and study the intricately cut smart costume, the conservatively neat one and so on down the line until each type is satisfied. HELENE SLATTERY RESEARCH WORK AT THE MUSEUM ‘THE Museum holds a mine of helpful material for the Art Stu- dent. The costume illustrator finds it especially attractive because of its variety of old costumes and jewelry. The mode in present-day ornaments has been copied in part from the East Indian jewels. History repeats itself and so do styles, and there is no better place than the Museum to get inspiration. [ 63 |

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MODELING The art of sculpture is so old that no one can say for certain when it began; probably with the first child who discovered a lump of clay. The sculptor has left us the record of the civilizations that have come and gone. Babylon, Greece, Egypt, Italy, all had their sculptors to write their histories in marble or bronze. Indeed it would be safe to say that we can judge not only the culture of a people but its prosperity as well by the quality of the sculpture. If a time ever comes when the historian will be at a loss to know what kind of people the Americans were, he need only go to her sculptors to find out, as we have found out about the ancient races. Each generation must educate its artists and appreciators of art, and so we are being educated in the modeling room at the Academy Street Annex. Here we have labored on our way to fame from the ornament-antique life to modeling from the figure, bas reliefs and portrait busts. Ours has been a rich training! { DT At yar Crt ©) OD WoO Rak