FINE ART ACADEMY

Otago Witness, Issue 2815, 26 February 1908, Page 90

FINE ART ACADEMY

PURCHASES CRITICISE!). . : WELLINGTON, February 2L ; At the annual meeting of the Fine Art" ] Academy the pictures recently purchased ; in England were criticised by the Hon. Kennedy Macdonald, who said that he was somewhat disappointed at the selection made by the committee in Great, Britain on behalf of the Academy. He suggested 1 that in making purchases in ifutuie it | should be borne in mind that it was not I so much :a question of encouraging certain 1 | schools in' art as of expending the publia 1 ! mon^y in endeavouring to' place upon the I I Academy walls something which would not ■ ; onl" ..educate but interest the great mass ofi ■ people. *".»>. m j Mr H. Ton Haast thought they should 9 not censurp. ihe Selection. Committee. It m was a, 'matter of taste. The Academy, ■ Should have pictures representing the dif* ■ ferent schools, in ' order to gradually fl educate local students and artists. "They fl should also have pictures appealing to th«^B general public. j|H — The man who points out our* faults %^H a true friend, yet we would like to kicslH k him «U til* game. ' S