Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1888 — Art Criticism. [ARTICLE]

Art Criticism.

Sometimes the pupil is told, “Your figure is too tall for its width; put the •waist higher, make the shoulders and hips broader; the right leg must be cut in on this side; make the left arm slenderer, and the right arm larger; your head is too broad, and you may better raise the eyebrow a little and put the eyes farther apart, and put the ears lower down. Otherwise your drawing is very good!” He has gone down in the mouth step by step as the faults in his work are developed; something like a resolution has darted through his brain to quit the school immediately, and return to his Western home; but the last sentence has saved him. He repeats, “Otherwise your drawing is very good!” That must be so. The faults criticised are minor details easily rectified; he will correct them at once, and then his drawing will be very good.—JEmest Knaufft, in American Magazine.