ART AND BUSINESS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23401, 18 July 1939, Page 12

ART AND BUSINESS

CLOSE ASSOCIATION CANADIAN TEACHER'S VIEWS NEW METHODS EXPLAINED Tho close association between art and the business man was the subject of an address to the Auckland Rotary Club at its weekly luncheon yesterday by Mr. Carter B. Storr, a graduate of Queen's College, Toronto, a specialist in the teaching of art to children, who is in New Zealand as an exchange teacher. The president of the club, Mr. W. E. Lewisham, presided over a good attendance. The need for business men to take a close interest in the methods of the schools in teaching art was stressed by Mr. Storr. In his opinion the child passing from a primary school, as a result of proper art training, should he conversant with colour harmony, interior decoration and tho trend in style as far as such tilings as dishware and furniture wero concerned. Girls should have a proper appreciation of dress designs and harmony in colour. A boy should know what colour suited him best in ties and suits. "The aims of art teaching should he to create an intelligent public," said the speaker. "Jt should teach the pupils to love and appreciate colour in things and, last of all, they should be taught to draw. If pupils were taught along such lines at art lessons the business man would benefit, as he would have a better-instructed clientele." The vote of thanks was proposed bj T Mr. W. Colder Mackav.