BEAUTY IN ART
"Eor some reason which has yet to be explained, this presenfc age, more than any age in history, is deluding artists of all types into the belief that contemporary conditions are of paramount importance, and also, it would seem, that the uglier the conditions the richer they are in value. But it has yet to be proved that a niachine age is an age of great spiritual development, and if it is not, the artist should refrain from concerning himself witli machines. The cult of ugliness. needs much explanation. Ugliness is not new, nor beauty old-fashioned, and both can give birth only to their own kind. What is to become of the world if art is to reveal, through ugliness, evil? Thirty years ago a much-neglected Gaelic poet and critic, William Sharp, asserted that 'Only a renaissance of belief in the beautiful can save modern nations from further spiritual degradation.' Surelv now the time for that renaissance is ripe 7" — Mr Dallas Kenmare in fet "Zs&w. i "
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 146, 8 July 1937, Page 4
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