ART IN THE HOME.

Wairarapa Age, 18 February 1927, Page 4

ART IN THE HOME.

Should enough pupils prove to be available, classes are to be formed at the Technical School in several branches of applied art. If the advantages they offer are realised, these classes will attain a wider popularity than can ever be gained by ordinary art classes. Only the gifted few can ever hope to attain any really high degree of proficiency in drawing and painting. It is open to almost anyone, however, to acquire as much skill in one or more branches of applied art as will provide them with a .pleasant hobby that may be turned to useful and profitable account in home decoration and in other ways. Such a mastery of processes of applied art as most people, old or young, might acquire easily and with little effort, brings to its possessors an educated appreciation of colour and form and the means of imparting to their homes the touch of distinctive adornment which is rightly prized, some branches of applied art are at the same time worth pursuing with commercial ends in view. The classes in applied art it is proposed to form at the Technical School cover a reasonably wide range. If they are joined by any considerable proportion of those who undoubtedly would derive pleasure and profit from the instruction offered, their success will be assured.