Otis Art Institute, a School of Fine and Applied Arts Maintained by the County of Los Angeles as a Department of the Los Angeles Museum, [1936-1937 Catalogue]
Art
when
THE STUDENT AT OTIS
is thu universal language of the race. From earliest dawn-mists of history,
stories of brave huntsmen were wondrously inscribed on walls of the
caverns
of Dordogne and Altamira, to the very present—the record endures,
the artist today mirrors life in ever more diversified forms of expression.
nelc J or I he artist is broad: it is important. Governments officially recog-
its. importance, and now sponsor their artists in many modes which carry
■ messages. The language of art is difficult to leam and requires keen
vision, courage, and strong desire. In our experience, the latter quality, or the
will to master, is quite the most essential requisite. "Genius," without this
eat desire to achieve, will not carry the young artist far.
jtujte is founded to receive the young artist and to develop his
abilities hi the expression for which he is best adapted. This, in the specialize o ci o: toaayl may be found in Advertising or Industrial Design. Decorative
2i>sturne Design, Figure. Landscape or Mural Painting, Illustration, Sculp-
or
ture, c
stitute
cal
and
oihW applications of Fine Arts. Graduate students of Otis Art hare successfully at work in the fields mentioned as well as in Theatri-
are
and Architectural Design, Animated and Newspaper Cartooning, Puppetry,
recently
in ths teaching of Art. Four of the leading Universities of the country
have placed Otis graduates on the faculties of their art departments.
