ARTIST’S COMPLAINT

Hokitika Guardian, 16 November 1932, Page 8

ARTIST’S COMPLAINT

AGAINST MODERN WOMEN

LONDON; November 3

• “What gobd- to me are the flatchested, iiariow-liippdd products of modernity?” asks Frank Brangwyn, R.A.,, R.8.A., a foremost British artist who is.’searching for models for murals oil the Radio City Buildings in New York City.

His voice is one in a chorus of disapproval by artists of aedern female development. • Alfred Praga, R.8.A., contends chat dreps designers are responsible for forcing women to fit -their bodies into the long, snaky line-, modern fashion instead of allowing them to develop naturally. ‘ ’ ’ ”

“This* deplorable maniafoi slimming is producing miserable specimens of womanhood,” he declares. .

Henry W< - Nevinson blames the cinema for the dearth of models suchj as are sought : by Brangwyn. 1 1 'The' women from Hollywood are nothing but shrimps and freaks. Only ill-form-; ed dwarfs can- stand the disfiguration, and enlargementi of the screen,” lie assorts; " •

“Ordinary women try to ape ■ their Hollywood idols, making the craze "or deformation to-day worse than de e rac. • ing.” On the other hand, 'Bertram Park, an artist-photographer, declares that the average woman of to-day is of far finer physique and superior in every way to the women of all ages.

“If Brangwyn wants a brawny, realistic Eve-like model,'he must engage a gorilla from the Zoo,” he said.