McINTIRE SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS.
I. Art.
Art B1: History of Art.—The development of architecture, sculpture,
and painting in antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and modern
times, with an introduction to their elements and technique. Lectures,
reports.—(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Professor Kimball.
Art B2: Freehand Drawing.—Expression of form by line and by
light and shade. Practice in drawing from the cast in pencil and in charcoal:
geometrical forms, ornament, the figure. Sketching out of doors
in pencil, pen, and wash.—(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Tues.,
Thurs., Sat., 9-12. Mr. Makielski.
Art B3: Painting: Art B2 prerequisite.—The rendering of color and
form. Practice in painting from still life and from nature in water colors
and in oils.—(B.A. or B.S. credit, 2 session-hours.) Tues., Thurs., Sat.,
10-12. Mr Makielski.
Art C1: Advanced Drawing and Painting: Art B2 and B3 prerequisite.—First
and second terms: Drawing and painting from the life. Third
term: Painting landscape and architectural subjects out of doors.—Not
offered in 1919-1920.
II. Architecture.
Architecture B1: Architectural Drawing; Elements of Construction
and Design: Art B1 prerequisite.—Walls, mouldings, and openings, "the
orders," architectural rendering; preparation of scale drawings and details;
perspective. Lectures and drawing.—(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours
of electives-at-large.) Mon. Wed., Fri., 2-3, and drawing 3-5.
Professor
Kimball and Mr.
Makielski.
Architecture B2: Architectural Design: Architecture B1 prerequisite.
—Problems in the design of simple structures and of the elements of large
compositions. Sketch problems in the planning of more complex structures.
Individual criticism and discussion, with occasional lectures.
Fee, $40.[2]
(Credit, 4 session-hours for B.S. in Architecture.) Drawing, 12
hours a week, normally Mon., Tues., Wed., Fri., 2-5. Professor Kimball.
Architecture C1: Advanced Architectural Design: Architecture B1 and
B2 prerequisite.—Problems in the design of complex structures and ensembles.
Sketch problems in the developed treatment of elements of architecture
and the allied arts. Individual criticism and discussion, with occasional
lectures. Fee, $40.[2]
(Credit, 6 session-hours for B.S. in Architecture.)
Drawing, 18 hours a week. Professor Kimball.
III. Music.
Music B1: Musical History and Analysis.—(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3
session-hours.) Hours to be announced. Professor —.
Music B2: Harmony and Counterpoint.—(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session
hours of electives-at-large.) Hours to be announced. Professor —.
Music C1: Composition.—Hours to be arranged. Professor —.
History and Environment.—The work offered re-establishes the instruction
outlined in the first curriculum of the University, 1818, the earliest
proposal for instruction in architecture in any American university. An
unrivalled background is provided for it by the buildings and environment
of Charlottesville; the University group, with its old buildings specially
designed to furnish examples of the various orders "as specimens
for the architectural lecturer," its new buildings designed by Stanford
White; the works of sculpture by Houdon, Ezekiel, Bitter, Borglum, Keck,
Shrady, and Aitken; the exhibitions of paintings brought to the University
with part of the income of the McIntire fund.
The School of Fine Arts occupies the building at the south end of
West Range, which has been specially adapted to its use. It comprises a
lecture and exhibition hall 35 by 55 feet, an architectural draughting room,
a studio for freehand drawing and painting, with dark rooms and offices.
A special fund for equipment given by Mr. McIntire has made generous
provisions for casts, books, photographs and lantern slides. The casts
include geometrical models, motives of ornamentation, architectural elements,
elements of the figure, and a number of full figures from the antique,
as well as fine modern figures. Beside the books on architectural
history and on building construction kept at the University Library, an
exceptional departmental collection of works valuable for reference in
architectural design and detailing, is housed in direct connection with the
draughting room. Among the numerous important sets of folios are the
Grands Prix de Rome, Médailles des Concours d'architecture, Monuments
antiques, Fragments antiques, Edifices de Rome moderne, The Georgian
Period, Work of McKim, Mead, and White, etc., etc. These are supplemented
by some three thousand photographs, and by a collection of
five thousand lantern slides, as well as by a number of
envoi drawings by
former holders of the Roman Prize and the Rotch Travelling Scholarship.
