MAORIS’ INSTINCTIVE ART APPRECIATION
NEW ROTORUA SCHOOL The instinctive appreciation of the Maori in matters artistic is, according to Mr. W. Page Rowe, one of the reasons for the establishment for the Arts and Crafts School at Rotorua. Instruction at the school will be directed toward lifting instinctive principles on to a conscious plane, he informed members of the anthropological section of the Auckland Institute last evening, thus enabling the Maori to revive his art in the terms of pres-ent-day environment. At the same time, said Mr. Page, he would preserve his native forms of art expression. Mr. Rowe advanced the opinion that the artistic instinct was not sufficiently taken into account by anthropologists in their methods of research into racial culture. The art of a nation was too often studied by scientists without recourse to artistic principles, with the result that complicated explanations had often to be invented where the artistic solution was a simple one.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 108, 28 July 1927, Page 18
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