MODERN ART
Sir,-Your correspondent "Tolerant" is quite correct in his assumption that I have reached maturity in appreciation of the fine arts. In order to do so, I was trained very thoroughly in my youth, and I have served a sound apprenticeship in the principal art centres "of Europe. With the exception of Italy, I made a special study of the picture galleries in all. the important countries,
and was taught early in life to discriminate between good and bad in painting, sculpture, literature and music. Before I was 16 I had mastered the principles laid down by Matthew Arnold in his Essays in Criticism,.the most valuable of all guides to acquisition of nidgment and formation of taste. Therefore, Mr. Editor, despite the remarks of "Tolerant" and those who think like him, I consider myself competent to voice authoritative opinions, from time to time, upon the above-men-tioned subjects.
L. D.
AUSTIN
(Wellineton).
(This correspondence is now closed.
-Ed.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 758, 29 January 1954, Page 5
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