Inicjatywy pedagogów na rzecz wychowania plastycznego w latach 1864–1914

Abstract

On the territory of Russian partition sector and under the conditions of liquidation of national education system, the establishment of the University for All and the Polish Educational Society should be noted among other educational endeavours. The period of Young Poland movement brought pedagogical interest in art treated as a means to overcome the unilateral character of intellectual education. The increased significance of drawing was related to the founding of organizations which associated people interested in the idea of visual arts education. And thus a drawing section was created by the Polish Teachers’ Association (1906). The Museum of Craftsmanship and Applied Art convened a meeting of Polish teachers of drawing (1907). A pedagogical (drawing) section was established by the Warsaw Art Society (1908). Also, exhibitions of school drawing (1910) and those related to art in children’s life (1911) were organized.