MODERN ART.
In an article in the Edinburgh Review on "The Tendencies of Modern Art," Mr James Bone, referring to the modern French school, says: "The continuous, laborious seriousness, so characteristic of the French mind, is as alion to us as its gaiety. French genius takes pains in the real sense of the word. Millet, Degas, Monet and Oezanne belong to a line of artist explorers to whom we have no equivalent. It is this spirit that Khglind needs most, for in our island art loses her divine fierceness and challenge, and we forget that beauty should be more than sweetness; that art at. her noblest should be 'terrible as "an army with banners.' Therefore let us not shut our gates to all that comes with the smoky flares'of the post-impres-sionist. What the future may hold for England is more than ever an enigma; but of one thing we may be sure, post-impression, either ,:i« a poison or a. medicine, will never be taken here in its purity."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 9 June 1913, Page 4
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168MODERN ART. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 9 June 1913, Page 4
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