APPRECIATION OF ART
Sir,-A. R. D. Fairburn deserves congratulation for an excejlent presentation of a very delicate subject. As a practising artist I find his essay quite a revelation, for it seems that a way has been opened to greater appreciation of the arts in this country. Perhaps Mr. Fairburn would suggest a criterion of values applicable to contemporary art, particularly the plastic arts, on which the layman or student could lay the foundations for his comprehension of Modernism. The problem that Picasso presents to the art of our day is very complex indeed. But whatever his worth as an artist may be, his influence on a younger generation of painters all over the world will be remembered for many years. Posterity makes the final assessment of any artist, of any age. That Picasso is a competent craftsman and draughtsman of a high order, I do not doubt for one
moment, but would like to ask Mr. Fairburn upon what authority he supposes that Picasso would take his place among the six greatest draughtsmen of all time. The drawings and paintings of this modern master have been available to me only through the medium of photographic reproduction, and I claim nv tight to judge his powers ‘of draughtsmanship on such unreliable material, or on the originals for that matter.
ARTIST-SPECTATOR
(Nelson).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 371, 2 August 1946, Page 22
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