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Description: | This drawing and 'Rage or Anger' cat. no. 103 are two in a series produced by Scott as teaching examples for students at the Government School of Design. The students followed traditional methods of an academic, fine art training which included drawing from antique casts. 'Acute Pain' is based on the Greek Laocoon, a cast of which was owned by the school. The policy of the schools however, as directed by the Central Council in London, was that the students be trained in the design of ornamental processed of service to industry rather than as painters. 'No persons studying to become artists, as distinct from ornamentalists should be admitted'. Instead Scott wrote cynically 'we were to teach, not drawing, modelling, colour or the scientific knowledge of perspective, projection, geometry', but instead train 'the working classes who could not hold a pencil to create new decorative designs and even begin new trades'. Neither Scott nor the North of england Society for the Promotion of Fine Arts, who had operated the school before the Board of Trade, shared these views. Scott in his own words 'hung up the rules and broke them'. In addition the Council also prohibited the teaching of geometry, perspective and mechanical drawing, but Scott nevertheless provided tuition in the subjects due to demand. Scott experienced continual difficulties with the Council which he sometimes aggravated; he worked shorter hours than most other masters and possibly neglected his duties. In 1846 the Council threatened to suspend the school's annual grant and in 1849 it was withdrawn. It was renewed however in 1850 after a local petition had been sent demanding its reinstatement. By the early 1850s the Schools of Design were remodelled and replaced by School of Art, in which attempts to train ornamentalists for industry were abandoned. | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Temporal: | Production date: unknown | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Creator: | William Bell Scott | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/artonline/se... | Go to resource |
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