Word: artist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rudolph Blaschka, the artist who with his father, modeled the famous "glass flowers" in the University Botanical Museum, has begun work on a supplementary collection of glass models of grasses and sedges, which will be displayed on their completion in a room adjoining the Ware collection of glass flowers...
...pattern. He wants an opportunity to train and develop his talent. So he immediately becomes labelled as a non-conformist, an experimenter, and finds no one to sympathize with his natural tastes. The second obstacle in the way of recognition by preparatory schools of the right of the creative artist is the all absorbing necessity of getting the boy into college. The rigid standard of entrance examinations makes it impossible to concentrate in any other field but those specified by the requirements and the boy has no choice but to follow suit. Surely the present day secondary school can have...
Even in the transfer from preparatory school to college there is according to Mr. Eaton, little gained in the way of a fuller recognition of the educational demands of a youth with dramatic instincts. "The colleges have sterilized more artists than they have ever made", he asserted. "There are two things essential to the creative artist experience with the material of his art and practice, and the acquisition of technique. He gets neither at the average university of today. His materials are life, and in college be secures an intimate acquaintance with nothing but books, being completely segregated from life...
...University, given under the direction of Professor G. P. Baker '87. This is the pioneer course in dramatics among American colleges. Its object it not to study the drama as literature so much as to take it up as a practical art, recognizing the claim of the creative artist, and giving him this vehicle of practice and self expression. There has long been a lack of understanding and appreciation of the fundamental value and revolutionary character of the work he has been accomplishing, but it is coming to be more and more generally recognized now that the course...
...learning. "It looks like a very hopeful start", he said. "I think it is pretty well established in the minds of education now that the study of the drama is not a fad. Particularly in the far West are people beginning to realize the importance of giving the creative artist a chance to follow his own bent. People realize that this is a mechanical and industrial age, and that none of us have much play for our creative instincts in the ordinary round of daily work...