AUSTRALIA’S ART.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 June 1923, Page 4

AUSTRALIA’S ART.

•'•WAY FKOAI TRADITION. LONDON, .May Ui. Australian art. because it has broken away from tradition wisely and etfeeI'Vely. lias more promise than British <>! Continental art at present such is the opinion of Air AY. .11. Jfmild, of the I’uhlie I.ib'niry of New South Wales, who has just made an inspection oi British and Continental exhibitions with ;i view to possible pur-

Air Ifould, when interviewed, said he was keenly disappointed at the tone of the British and Continental art. The Academy was shockingly weak, and the French Salon shewed miles of pictures, none of them striking or original. ‘T fed strongly.” lie said, ‘‘that the autumn exhibition of Australian art, with the originality and virility that English art lacks, will attract a great deal of attention. The more I see of British ;iit the more 1 realise that Australian art has tremendous promise. because it lias broken away from tradition, not erratically, as the British cubists and other eccentrics have done, hut wisely and effectively. ‘lf English people would re me ml or that Australian work is painted in brilliant sunshine, where every line is hard, they could not help hut he impressed. Neither the Academy nor the Salon possesses the work of a water colorist comparable to Hans Heyseu of South Australia,”