Moori Art
‘THE reappearance of Gilbert Archey’s talks on Maori Art from 2XG was a rare chance tg hear talks missed last year from the YA’s. These deserve repetition, both for the excellence of their delivery and the importance of their subject. As Director of the Auckland Museum, the speaker obviously realised how ignorant of Maori Art his audience was likely to be, and kept commendably to the first principles; explaining how the typical distortions of form came about, he must have been answering questions he has been asked scores of times. For we have, of course, no peasant or primitive art of our own to educate us unconsciously by its presence to an appreciation of some of the fundamentals of art. It would be folly to imagine. that the indigenous art of the Maofi can ever quite fill this lack for us, but we are nevertheless fortunate to have examples of such art around us in New Zealand. If we could only have it always expounded to us as patiently and enthusiastically as in these talks, and so come ultimately to feel its great qualities, there would be a better chance of New Zealanders approaching art in general with less diffidence than is now
common.
K.J.
S.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 553, 27 January 1950, Page 11
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208Moori Art New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 553, 27 January 1950, Page 11
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