. Art crafts for amateurs . even barbarity and crudity, are betterqualities in art than a suave conventional perfection, thehard polish, the splendidly null. The art that is moststimulating to study is the art of savages, or at all events ofprimitive peoples. The more civilised nations become themore conventional becomes the expression of their emotions,and we need to get down to the bed-rock of human natureif we are to receive the most vital stimulus that the study ofother work can give. The art turned out by schools isgenerally speaking deadening in its regulated, codified per-fection ; it j
. Art crafts for amateurs . even barbarity and crudity, are betterqualities in art than a suave conventional perfection, thehard polish, the splendidly null. The art that is moststimulating to study is the art of savages, or at all events ofprimitive peoples. The more civilised nations become themore conventional becomes the expression of their emotions,and we need to get down to the bed-rock of human natureif we are to receive the most vital stimulus that the study ofother work can give. The art turned out by schools isgenerally speaking deadening in its regulated, codified per-fection ; it just lacks the savageness which lays hold ofone as the tigers paw does its prey. Let us reverence and love old work. Having spent agood deal of time in museums I may claim to have some A METHOD OF STUDY. slight acquaintance with much that is good : my advice tomy readers is by all means study old work; go where it isto be seen, draw specimens that appeal to you, but avoidimitating it. Try and do something on your own, and to. No. 4.—Tooled the Leighton Buzzard Class, under Miss Bassett. keep your soul sweet, never cease going to the fountainhead, Nature, for she, after all, is the source of all can exhaust everything else but her. Always be onthe look out for agreeable lines, pleasant shapes; keep on 10 ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. the alert for striking combinations; ideas may come to oneat any moment, suggested by the most unlikely material. Itis true that the basis of ornament is plant-form, and moreideas may come to one through that source than any other,but a suggestion for the planning and arranging of yourmaterial may come from a fishs bone, a birds wing, themarkings on a moth, as I have endeavoured to show in myTraining of a Craftsman. Therefore the worker shouldmake a practice of sketching from nature—not merely plantform, but any form. A note should at once be made whenan idea or suggestion comes to one, so treacherous is thememory; and r
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