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Show 17 FUNDAMENTAL PURPOSE from through body and voice, has been unconsciously unfolding the technique artificial the in the other arts, On hand, babyhood. there of hand, notes, or colors, and so on, must be acquired before The technique of communication can be any medium of expression. the is as well developed at the school age as the technique of But no music musician or painter is after several years of study. lines per see After nor art teacher will study notes, scales, drawing the meager fundamentals are learned, the music student develops both technique and skill together through the effort to interpret simple musical compositions; through such effort, skill, emotion, and understanding develop until the pupil is able to translate the set to work to draw or great musical masters. The art student is and skill and through the effort he what ability acquires sees, paint At first the pupil may neither paint to put this on paper or canvas. but if he con nor draw a house so we would know it to be a house; tinues to draw houses he will attain sufficient recognizable house on paper or canvas. technique to put a From a house, the art stu dent finally acquires the skill to draw the house, and afterwards the his version of a house-and he is an artist. Who art to reproduce ever - advocated that the musician silent study of masterpieces! or the artist could be trained by Masterpieces of music, art, of litera ture are entirely comprehended, only just so far as the student gains vision-reaches, through his own efforts to play, sing, paint, draw, do these things. or read orally, or hear or see others cause-here Substituting my will for its inherent student to will the to instructor is the of get is the rub. The job com his author to the of upon the play to react, to allow purpose to reaction natural upon the plays as speak plexes as spontaneously The Will. him normally. Just so far as the pupil permits his will to move his he will enjoy entire being to real communicative reaction, just so far he can abandon more The it. with comes which the creative sense artistic his be will pleasure. the himself to his greater will, Literary interpretation demands the agent of expression; that being his "heart on hi sleeve," for wear one must abandon himself,-must Emotional Embarrassment. . the free use of one's entire the public to "peck at." prepare his work in the as The quiet of student of studio, or interpretation cannot the writer, home, as |
