tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post430745757843884556..comments2023-11-27T03:48:51.986-05:00Comments on Howard Pyle: “It was great to see him painting”Ian Schoenherrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04906881923887306477noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-90451449695361361682011-07-12T19:25:57.038-04:002011-07-12T19:25:57.038-04:00I’ll backpedal a bit.
The “actual work” he did “...I’ll backpedal a bit. <br /><br />The “actual work” he did “before the class” was probably? possibly? more prevalent in his earlier (i.e. Drexel) years of teaching. I’m really not sure how long he kept that aspect of it up. Then again, as late as 1910 he would, if need be, draw in front of the assembled group in order to illustrate a point. (And I think I should post more about THAT. I was Ian Schoenherrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04906881923887306477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-14382630043663876162011-07-12T18:27:41.798-04:002011-07-12T18:27:41.798-04:00I had no idea that Pyle's composition/aestheti...I had no idea that Pyle's composition/aesthetics lectures were a "running commentary upon actual work" he was doing... that is absolutely fascinating to me. (Talk about practical application!) I have assumed all along that Pyle spent these lectures discussing "imaginative projection", aesthetics and storytelling which he may have illustrated with a slide show of completed kev ferrarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09509572970616136990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-43002422961846213322011-07-12T16:48:14.811-04:002011-07-12T16:48:14.811-04:00It was indeed only a little over a month into True...It was indeed only a little over a month into True’s time with Pyle, so he may very well have overstated things. <br /><br />But I also think that things were different at Chadd’s Ford - more informal and intimate - and so Pyle was apt to work “in public” as it were. And he probably knew he was setting a good example, work-ethic-wise, etc.<br /><br />Also, in describing his teaching methods earlyIan Schoenherrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04906881923887306477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-29174674644428806992011-07-12T13:31:57.131-04:002011-07-12T13:31:57.131-04:00That is interesting... I wonder if the young Mr. T...That is interesting... I wonder if the young Mr. True had his facts straight. Didn't Pyle say at some point, after some of his students pestered him to see him work, that "while you could see me paint, you could not see me think." Meaning, therefore that Pyle did not really believe having them watch him work was all that instructive as to what was really going on.<br /><br />Or did kev ferrarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09509572970616136990noreply@blogger.com