ART CAN BE BRITISH.
THE DUKE OF KENT’S REBUKE. “We are all too ready in this country to belittle British art and British artists,” said the Duke 'of Kent at the Royal Academy banquet recently. He was condemning the school of artistic thought which says: “It is British therefore it cannot be so good,” when he declared:— “Announce a pianist or a singer with a foreign name, and at once he or she will have an audience; advertise an exhibition by someone with a less homely name than Smith or Brown and the same result is achieved. “This is all wrong. “This country has produced Turner, Gainsborough, Reynolds, and many other artists who are valued the whole world over. 1 “And there is Constable, whose centenary exhibition is causing so much excitement. “I am a great admirer of the French school of impressionists, and I do not hesitate to say so, for I am sure that without Constable’s influence that school would not have produced the masterpieces which have made it famous.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 249, 2 August 1937, Page 3
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172ART CAN BE BRITISH. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 249, 2 August 1937, Page 3
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