Painting is Popular
I SHOULDN'T like to go so far as to say there are more artists mow than there were a hundred years ago, but there certainly are more people painting. A short while after the last war there were, in Paris. 80.000 petsons doing some form of art work.
Up to the end of the 19th Century, and especially in England, painting seemed to be the prerogative of a few, but in this century it has become the delight of an increasingly large number of people. Just two years ago I was painting on the banks of the ‘Thames at Custom House Quay in London. . . I hadn’t been working long when a gentleman came up and asked if I would like to
see an exhibition of pictures. He was the secretary of the society that was holding the show. Now it may surprise you to learn that the Art Society in question is made up of employees of the Customs Department. It was an annual exhibition I was invited to. Several of these big corporations in Paris, also, have their art societies. The railway men have theirs, the underground men theirs, and the Police Force have theirs. Perhaps I should say had, for Hitler has put an end to all art, I expect. They are what has been styled week-end painters, men and women who find that their greatest joy in life is in doing some kind of creative work in their spare time.-(Sydney L. Thompson, "Things as Seen by ‘B Painter," 3YA August 28).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 65, 20 September 1940, Page 6
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257Painting is Popular New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 65, 20 September 1940, Page 6
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