VITALITY IN ART.
No one has ever discovered what lies behind the queer quality that makes a work of art worth looking at —or listening to—twice, remarks the art critic, Mr Eric Newton, writing in the “Sunday Times.” It is easy to call it “vitality,” but to find a label for it is not to explain it. Even an incompetent, amateurish artist may have it (though not often, for, in the end, vitality creates its own competence); and an artist with every trick of the painter’s trade at his fingers’ ends may lack it. Vitality is like the pressure of steam that- gives a locomotive its power. Streamlining and resplendence are no .use by themselves. Without fuel, the Flying Scotsman will be easily outclassed by any Puffing Billy.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 86, 21 January 1938, Page 4
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