Old-Fashioned
[At the opening of the autumn exhibition of the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, the president, Mr. G. G. G. Watson, said that... there were still on the hanging committee members sufficiently old-fashioned to believe that sound drawing was the basis of all true art.-News Item]. **T"IS sad to see the human race Progressing at so slow a pace. President Watson (G.G.G.) Says there are on his commit-tee (As Scots would have it) still a few Who look askance at something new, And argue, that in all true art Sound drawing plays a basic part, (I rather judge himself to be Of that old-fashioned coterie) I fancied we had reached a stage, In this mature, artistic age, Wherein regard for form and line Was reckoned almost asinine. The dull, reactionary band Quite fails, it seems, to understand How the artistic eye can trace The outlines of my lady’s face In shapes most weird; how William D. Australia’s new celebrity, Can see, in four thin, rigid strokes, A colleague’s shapely arms. It chokes The artist’s urge, it dims his star, When folk say "Paint things as they are!’"’ I’ve heard of men who claim to see Two moons, where only one should be. Which proves lavishly endowed See much that’#hidden from the crowd. Peace! ye old-fashioned ones; give me The fruits of pose and oddity.
Ronald
Buchanan
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 259, 9 June 1944, Page 6
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228Old-Fashioned New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 259, 9 June 1944, Page 6
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