Show TO TEACH BLIND TO DRAW N english idea Is that art may help the sightless to with outside outride world one of the many experiments of the royal drawing society has beep to teach people to draw by touch the pupil Is blindfolded and feels a simple shape like a hammer bummer of a spade antl and draws draw it with his eyes open an advanced pupil has drawn the head bead of a classical bust and the mask of beethoven these experiments fired mr 0 B ablett the director of the society with the idea of drawing by the blind ile he has devised de a medium which looks like the frosted stuff on a matchbox made liquid by which the draughtsman can follow by touch what he has drawn and correct or add to his work so far there have been no experiments with a blind pupil mr ablett does riot not claim for it more than that a blind man can draw the plan or a design of something be wishes to record and explain A blind gardener has been known to go into ecstasies over the unfolding shapes of a plant and the drawing of these shapes known to him by touch would undoubtedly give him a torm form of esthetic pleasure in any case it would increase his moans of if communicating with the outside world A great boon it if the method is practicable C tie ti would be that it would enable the blind to write and to read writing manchester guardian I 1 |