Minnesota State Capitol number . OLD STATE CAPITOL. art school may find the T-square and triangle less tohis liking than the brush; but without trespassing uponthe special work of either, both acquire such el-emental knowledge of that which is essential in botharts, which would add greatly to the appreciation ofall the arts that are fine. It recently befel that in aclass of forty young men, in an American school of architecture, that only six knew even the names of theprimary and secondary colors; and with this fact inmind, it is hardly to be wondered at that the associationof brick and
Minnesota State Capitol number . OLD STATE CAPITOL. art school may find the T-square and triangle less tohis liking than the brush; but without trespassing uponthe special work of either, both acquire such el-emental knowledge of that which is essential in botharts, which would add greatly to the appreciation ofall the arts that are fine. It recently befel that in aclass of forty young men, in an American school of architecture, that only six knew even the names of theprimary and secondary colors; and with this fact inmind, it is hardly to be wondered at that the associationof brick and stone, of various colors, is so frequentlya source of artistic anguish, in our parti-colored build-ings. In the case of the mural pointer, he too often. Drawn by A. R. WIillett. Designed by Elmer E. Garnsey rejoices in the strength of his drawing and is glad invibrancy of his colors, whije he is a pigmy in scale,and a beggar for a border. i This may seem quite fundamental, and it is. Itis in the fundamental that we are too often at fault, thearchitect being as ignorant of color as is the painter ofarchitectural design. The subject may seem also tobe foreign to the matter of the color decoration of theMinnesota Capitol, upon which subject the editor ofthe Western Architect has asked me to write; but itdoes offer the clue upon which the success of the colordecoration depends, namely, the appreciation of colorand the knowledge of its harmonious use, on the partof the architect of the building, Mr. Cass the beginning of his studies of the plans of theCapitol to its completion, this phase of the work hasapparently never been over-looked, nor its importanceunderestimated. In the selection of constructive ma-terials, their textu
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