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Arthur Lismer and a sketching group, Children's Art Centre, Grange Road/McCaul Street "Children from city and country schools come voluntarily and eagerly every week ... There is no discrimination of colour, creed, nationality or social status. They come from separate, public, and private schools. There are physically handicapped children, and extra bright ones, and there are hordes of average Canadian children who have one thing in common - they want to come, and they like to do things with their hands, and they do them with unrestrained gusto. The procedure in these classes is freedom within a necessary restraint, but not by any means licence. The children are led towards experiments for themselves. There is no question of what they will become, no thought of making artists or art workers, their professional and vocational life is not our problem - it is the business of the staff to encourage every latent idea in design, form and colour, to lead out from the child and to avoid the practice of merely pounding in theories, facts and information." Arthur Lismer |
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