MANUAL FOR TEACHERS. INVENTIVE COURSE-ANALYTIC SERIES. BY HERMANN KRÜSI, A. M., INSTRUCTOR IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION AT THE NORMAL AND TRAINING SCHOOL, "Painting, or art generally as such, with all its technicalities, difficulties, and particular ends, is NEW YORK: D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, 549 & 551 BROADWAY. 1874. KF 7525 HARVARD Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1878, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. PREFACE. THE Analytic Series of this system of drawing differs from the Synthetic, not only in the more elaborate finish of the designs, but in regard to the fundamental principle upon which the designs are constructed. To analyze is to divide a whole into parts, and analytic drawing requires, first, that the outline of the whole space including the design shall be considered; and, second, that this space shall be divided into definite parts by lines drawn between points which mark the proportional division of the external lines. It will be seen that such a course requires careful comparison and accurate judgment in regard to proportion and symmetry, and higher mental processes than are brought into exercise in the synthetic course. For acquiring skill in construction, and for developing taste in regard to form, the inventive process is still continued; and it is the firm conviction of the author that the designs produced by the inventive process, however crude and imperfect, stimulate the mind more power |