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Fine Arts
December 30, 1875 issue

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The objects of mechanical drawing and of drawing for purposes of artistic expression are not to be reached by the same processes. They have little in common except the use of the same materials. The training of hand and eye required in each of them demands essentially different methods, and to suppose that good instruction for the one end is equally good for the other indicates a thorough confusion of ideas. It is true that most designers require to know certain mechanical processes,. hut, as de- signers, they require training of a purely artistic kind, which cannot be provided unless the mechanical element be kept out of it.

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ART; DRAWING; MECHANICAL drawing; DESIGN; PROJECTION; DESIGNERS
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