MODERN ART
Sir,- Judging by the illustrations in your issue of September 18, purporting to portray the paintings of Frances Hodgkins, it would appear that contemporary ..wielders of the brush and palette, like modérn composers, either lack or deliberately ignore the fundamental principles of art. Mr,..Stuart Maclennan hit the nail right on the head when‘he told your representative that the artist’s early work revealed "struggles with draughtsmanship"; he would have driven the nail tight home had he added that these struggles persisted to the end. If Frances Hodgkins was New Zealand’s "greatest painter." then’ Heaven heln all the
others!
L. D.
AUSTIN
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 742, 2 October 1953, Page 5
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103MODERN ART New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 742, 2 October 1953, Page 5
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