That sounds like a pretty neat class! When you say he's teaching it the way it was before 1900, do you mean like the style that was predominant in posters from back then?--not sure the name of the style but Norman Rockwell kind of resembles it.
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No, not poster art so much, but more the tradition of drawing and painting accurately that goes back to the old masters, but went "out of style" about the turn of the last century when impressionism, and then modernism came in.
"Realistic" art, as they call it, is what he teaches.
The kid that likes comic art is OK there, since lots of comic book art, as you know, is grounded in the ability to draw accurately. I think there have been comic book artists that have been real experts in figurative work.