COVER DESIGNS
Sir,-It must be that muggy Auckland weather which made "Mere Mother" write to you complaining about that delightful cover design for School Broadcasts you reproduced in your issue of March 6. It was so good that I made a mental note of the artist’s name and I am on the look out for more of his work; he is a chap to watch, I am afraid the sometimes. tedious job of bringing up children has completely upset "Mere Mother’s" judgment, for if there is pne thing children nowadays can do they can draw lively, fresh and spontaneous drawings compared with the dull stuff I was taught as a boy, If you want exact static two-dimensional representations of living three-dimensional objects, you don’t go to an artist, you go to a photographer; and children with an unspoilt eye are not very interested in photographs. And there is nothing especially "correct" in printing with initial capital letters; it is just a convention, and like most conventions, rigidly adhered to it can become deadly dull. Life (like art) is not an exact, correct business, anyway; it’s a bit of a muddle. but it’s fun.
FATHER OF FOUR
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 719, 24 April 1953, Page 5
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197COVER DESIGNS New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 719, 24 April 1953, Page 5
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