ART AND THE PUBLIC
Sir,-William Dobell’s picture may be a very good picture for all I know; I have not seen it. But Mr. Dobell is not fair to the general public. It is simply not true that the average man can only appreciate a picture if it is like a coloured photograph. Very often he detests coloured photographs. A man may have something to say. If he chooses paint as his medium and fails to make himself understood, he has failed, and that’s about it; he cannot logically resort to another medium to make his meaning clear. Time may come to his aid in the future or it may not. On the other hand a painter may have nothing to say; he may merely wish to tell you about something that he has seen. But this world cannot be "merely copied." The range of light and shade alone prohibits this. It has to be interpreted. The painter must also tell us what he has felt about it, and in doing so need not resort to misrepre-
sentation.
JAS.
FITZGERALD
church).
(Christ-
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 253, 28 April 1944, Page 7
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182ART AND THE PUBLIC New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 253, 28 April 1944, Page 7
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