A Child's Guide to Pictures

A Child's Guide to Pictures

SOME of you, I expect, collect photographs of pictures in connection with your history studies. These portraits of the principal characters and pictures, illustrating great events, places, costumes, and modes of living of the period, add greatly to the interest of your reading. They bring the past time vividly before your eyes. But it is not this view of pictures that we are going to talk about in the present book. I shall have very little to say about the subjects of picturespartly because you can find out for yourselves what subjects interest you; but mostly, because the subject of a picture has so very little to do with its beauty as a work of art. For it is this view of a picture, as being a work of art, that I shall try to keep before you. I remember seeing the photograph of a picture hanging in a place of honor on the wall of a girls room; and I asked her why she had chosen this particular one out of many that she had. You see that, in order to help anyone, you have to try to get into{12} their minds, and find out how their minds are working; and as much of my work is with girls and boys, I try to get from them hints as to the best way of helping them. Well, this girl, let me tell you, bubbled over with life and fun, swam like a fish and climbed trees like a squirrel; but she had her thoughtful moods, when, as often as not, she would lay out her collection of photographs of pictures on the floor, and not only look at them, but think about them. And I have no doubt that she was in one of those moods, when she chose out this particular print and hung it on her wall, in order that she might see it often. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 59040
Author: Caffin, Charles H. (Charles Henry)
Release Date: Mar 9, 2019
Format: eBook
Language: English