HENRY MOORE
Sir,-I have read with interest the many art comments in newspapers and magazines about a recent innovation to the New Zealand scene-the art of Henry Moore. Keen to learn, and to forget the unnecessary carping by studying some real directed thinking on the subject, I looked to your contributor Mr. Fairburn. I. was carried forward with interest and enthusiasm until "an interesting idea intruded" and the writer made his final remarks. Surely art is not to be thought of as "the icing on the cake," but rather as the "yeast in the dough." I think that this must be so in the best of Moore. Mr. Fairburn in his "interesting thought" referring to polychromy and suggesting such treatment by Moore has, I believe, misguided one from the essen-tial-honesty to material-the "oneness" of means and ends-the life force that is Moore and art in the broadest possible sense. Moore would not, and indeed could not, concern himself with flippant decoration; when the very "colour" of his work is surely to be found in the complexity and richness of submerged rhythms exemplified only in the reality of life itself. I think a work such as "Three Standing Figures" has a permanence and reality consummate with the human spirit. Lives and breathes- . .. as a Chinese jar still Moves perpetually in its stillness.
JOHN
LLEWELL
Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 901, 9 November 1956, Page 5
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224HENRY MOORE New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 901, 9 November 1956, Page 5
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