The Artist and the School
HE Education Department, School Publications Branch, has been running in the Wellington Public Library one of the most interesting exhibitions that enterprising institution has yet seen. There are strong arguments in favour of sending it round the coun-try-displayed, perhaps, in a _ rather more skilful manner, It.is an exhibition
of original drawings which have appeared in the School Journal in recent years; and the public ought to be aware of the work that is being done to make this publication one of the really significant things in New Zealand education — I had almost said, in an education in our native New Zealand culture, It represents, certainly, the first major and consistent effort in this country to link illustrations to the
printed word, for a very big body of consumers; and very often the effort has sbeen brilliantly successful. To gather together a team of over a score of artists, and to get this body and this level of work from them, is no mean achieve-. ment. This does not mean that everything is first-rate, or uniformly good for its purpose; but it does mean that there is a surprising number of competent people thinking and working in terms of illustration, with some real imaginative and decorative power, and with humour. One must not, in a short notice, pick out names-but I cannot resist mentioning Yvonne Bendall’s cats. ; If only we had paper and type, and a typographer to make the best of these drawings! If only it was possible to introduce a little colour into the Journal! If only we could get, even, regularly the right margins! There really is, in| New Zealand, a potential of production which could make these school publications as good as anything of their kind in the world. Potential? If we could only harness intelligently all our potentialities in education, what a nation we would be! In the meanwhile, something has been done, without noise and shouting, which deserves public applause.
J.C.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 466, 28 May 1948, Page 25
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332The Artist and the School New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 466, 28 May 1948, Page 25
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