BETTER DAYS FOR ARTISTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 38, 7 May 1927, Page 22 (Supplement)

BETTER DAYS FOR ARTISTS

SOME VERY real and unmistakt indications are to hand that us near future will hold better di; in store for. the thousands of artin engaged in the disheartening strngc for recognition and for gaining a te lihood, wrote the art critic of tbt “Daily Mail” recently. Things have moved rapidly s:«just about a year ago. Sir Joseph Di veen addressed his letter to the Frit Minister, pointing out the necessity tf supporting living artists and awas* ing a wider interest in their ejor Sir Josep h’s scheme is now about to be realised in a practical form. He has started an organisation for holding exhibitionsof works by lesserknown artists in provincial centres of England and in Contfnental capitals.

The exhibiting artists will inenr expense whatever, and the price the works is restricted to a maiia- : of £SO,

By this means it is hoped to f the interest of a new class of pic: buyers who have never before t*i -j active interest in the support of r J and whose taste for pictures will i ually expand and improve. “The buyer to-day of a small t-motor-car,” as a speaker suggested the first committee meeting, “is potential buyer of next year’s hr* ious limousine, and similarly year’s buyer of a £SO picture is potsntial buyer of next year’s mspiece. The habit or appetite »• be created, and to do this e?ei7 and, if necessary, every coccefc must be made.” Another step in the same three--is the foundation of the Bntisl pire Academy under the \J* of Lord Howard de Walden. Tms ,4 object of this scheme is “to adequate exhibition space the est need of all painters, Also enough to enable modernie° r ers, musicians, and dramatis | ably to display their works. I A suitable site has e . en Grosvenor Road. WestmißSte, |j| the Houses of Parliament ana ■ minster Abbey, and P lan * drawn up for a magnificen ...jj that will be fully adequate for || tended purpose. jifl Meanwhile temporary P r f“:.r : - available on this side, include large hall g 75 feet long-