"ATMOSPHERE"
Sir,-I am grateful for the report of your interview with an American artist, Charles Hopkinson, published in your May 17-23 issue, and particularly for his remarks on this thing called "atmosphere," an expression which has puzzled me for years in connection with paintings. I still wonder if those who use it could define it-to justify such use. Only the other day a woman said to me she "did not like" the pictures of another, and, I believe, well-known American artist, recently on exhibition in
-Auckland-because "they lacked atmosphere." Personally I coveted the lot of them; they were bright and vigorous, not like the-so many of them-pallid specimens now on exhibition by the Auckland Arts Society, whose creators seem never to realise we have sunlight and shadow, "light and shade." If still there be those who maintain there is such a thing as "atmosphere" in paintings I, for one, would be glad to have evidence, in simple language, to this effect. In the meantime I am with Charles Hopkinson: "An artist’s business is with light and shade, colour and
form."
COBALT
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 469, 18 June 1948, Page 17
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182"ATMOSPHERE" New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 469, 18 June 1948, Page 17
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