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because, the terse NEA memo explained, ’teaching students to draw the human figure is revisionist and stifles creativity.’”
Aaargh! What rubbish! No wonder the NEA keeps getting in trouble! Put a moron in charge of art criticism and you will get moronic decisions. 1 recall, a I have recalled before, visiting the Picasso Museum in Barcelona. One goes through room after room of Picasso’s early work. His portaits all have two eyes and one nose, right where nature says they belong. In time Picasso put eyes and noses wherever he felt they belonged, but first he had to learn to draw the human figure straight.
The analogy to writing is self-evident. I keep whooping it up in this column for the old techniques of instruction. Every writer who aspires to write seriously should begin in the first grade by learning to spell. Through phonics the child learns the “con” sound, the “st” sound, the “tion” sound, and at age 6 she gets a dollar from grandfather by spelling “Constitution.”
Some elementary schools - not many, but some - still use the old device of diagramming sentences. I
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