MODERN ART
Sir -I was interested in the letter signed Margaret McGregor, on the above subject, because as she hails from Dunedin she ought to know quite well that I have no grudge against the 20th or any other century in matters of art. Surely my quarter-century-old column in the Evening Star of Dunedin supplies evidence of this. My criticism of Frances Hodgkins’s work referred solely to her draughtsmanship, or lack of it. No amount of juggling with" colour can hide poor drawing. Modern painters-not all, thank goodness, but many of them-like a few modern sculptors, would have us believe that black is white, and that grotesque distortion represents nobility of outline. The intelligent observer is not to be fooled. I have no time for the merely "pretty-pretty," but even that is preferable to artistic sciolism.
L .D.
AUSTIN
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 751, 4 December 1953, Page 5
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140MODERN ART New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 751, 4 December 1953, Page 5
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