Identifier: howtoshowpictur00hurl (find matches)
Title: How to show pictures to children
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May), 1863-1924
Subjects: Art -- Study and teaching
Publisher: Boston, New York Houghton Mifflin Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ture is dramatic in character and contains a story by
implication, the story the artist meant to tell, and to
draw this out is quite another matter than building
one of our own upon a picture not designed for the
purpose. The line cannot be rigidly drawn, but it
seems to me well to keep the distinction clearly in
mind. We do not want to fix the literary habit
upon a child so that every picture necessarily means
a story to him. In a real story or anecdotic picture,
the position or action of the figures and the acces-
sories of the composition all point out a story, and if
the artist has done his part, we ought to read it
easily. The first story subjects we give our children are
naturally those dealing with child life. We begin by
looking for pictures illustrating the doings of the
average boy and girl in the home, with his playmates,
and in the great outdoor world. Few artists have in
any sense specialized in these lines, and we pick up
our material among scattered examples from many
countries and many periods. The most satisfactory
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Fr. Hanfstaengl, photo. John Andrew & Son Sc.

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