FIGURE DRAWING.
Sir.-Mr. Fairburn in his review of several art books included one on figure drawing. With his usual cogent moralising he might have pointed out a remarkable peculiarity of New Zealand art exhibitions, whether socio-snobbish or bohemio-private. There is an almost complete absence of figure drawing or painting. In the recent "upsurge of cul-ture-consciousness," George Woods, Lois White, Mervyn Taylor, and a few others have exhibited some worthy figure work -but these are but a drop in the bucket of landscapes, Has it not been accepted for many thousand years, and Almost everywhere, that quite apart from the. potential beauty of the human figure draped or undraped, it is by far the best subject on which to learn. draughtsmanship, presenting as it does problems of line, relief and texture-compared to which landscape and still life are simple things? Is it not conceivable too that the perception and taste of art consumers would benefit from seeing more figure work, and also be a good preparation for understanding the great painters and sculptors? Or are we to leave the presentation of the human body to Tarzan and Jane Russell, and the increasingly lascivious tendencies in the depiction of comic strip heroines?
R. E.
NOIR
(Akaroa-sur-mer). .
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 507, 11 March 1949, Page 5
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