DAVID JONES'S THRUSH
Sir,-Perhaps it is a bit late to comment now, but I was surprised by Mr. Fairbyrn’s remarks in your November 6 issue on asdrawing of a thrush by David Jones. David Jones does not always paint (or draw) the purely visual, but none the less his works are works of art, expressions of sensuous pleasure not only of his own living but of the living of all things: billowing curtains, a gush of cool air in the room, the love of’ both the physical presence and spiritual presence of his landscapes and sitters, and his sudden inward hearing of a thrush’s song. One can never watch a bird balancing on a bough in the wind without remembering Chinese paintings be that subject, Neither can one now hear a thrush singing without being aware of both the artist’s and the bird’s delight in living. en I enjoyed Mr. Fairburn’s. too few other remarks on the exhibition, and wonder if we will hear more about it.
WM.
ROGERS
(Christchurch).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 752, 11 December 1953, Page 5
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170DAVID JONES'S THRUSH New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 752, 11 December 1953, Page 5
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