God Inspired Learning Frank Lloyd Jones Analysis

God Inspired Learning In the prelude to An Autobiography, Wright recounted a lesson from his Uncle John on the Lloyd-Jones' farm during a walk on a light blanket of snow over sloping fields, gleaming in the early morning sun-shine. With his uncle walking hand-in-hand with the boy in a straight-line, the purpose of the walk together was to demonstrate by looking back on their footprints in the snow the importance of staying on the straight and narrow always obeying the righteousness of God's will. Breaking loose from his uncle's grip, Wright had different ideas, zigzagging back and forth across his uncle's prints in the snow collecting flowers, weeds and hay into his arms. Finally upon re-joining his uncle at the top of the hill the lesson would come − the Way of the Lord is straight, neither to the

Wright, as a practicing architect bared the full Lloyd-Jones story graphically using a special geometric language of points, lines and planes depicting his unfolding story. Wright’s drawing is that of a preliminary study for the cover of An Autobiography Book One Family - From Generation to Generation. <insert image 11 here> In Frank Lloyd Wright Graphic Artist, Penny Fowler described the graphic art design for Book One as an abstract linear pattern (that) sweeps across the page, evoking a boyhood walk from corner to corner of a snowy field with Wright’s Uncle John. While the man, indicated by a bold, solid diagonal, proceeded in a straight line, the boy – a series of thin fractured lines in a zigzag pattern – scurries side to side. Although Fowler recognized certain ideas regarding Froebel‘s Kindergarten in Wright’s work, she apparently missed the evidence in Wright’s “From Generation to Generation” design, insofar as implications of geometric shapes and angles displayed by Wright in his