McCAHON'S PICTURES
Sir-I saw the exhibition of Colin McCahon’s pictures in the Wellington Public Library recently, and I feel that the lyrical adulation of "J.C.B." must be contradicted. I considered that the whole exhibition was an insult to one’s artistic intelligence. The British Exhibition of Children’s Art, shown through New Zealand a year or so ago,
had better pictures, or attempts at pictures, by children of from six to 14 years. To boost McCahon in serious magazines is to give him an importance out *of proportion to. his ability. "J.C.B." wishés there were a church in New Zealand alive enough to buy the Annunciation or Deposition paintings. It is extremely unlikely. Perhaps it is old-fashioned to expect an artist to be able to draw correctly, or even to make a recognisable attempt at a figure study. If so, I am content with Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt, and a few others.
P.W.
R.
(Timaru).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 461, 23 April 1948, Page 5
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153McCAHON'S PICTURES New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 461, 23 April 1948, Page 5
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