CHINESE ART SHOW.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 17, 20 January 1940, Page 17

CHINESE ART SHOW.

TO AID RED CROSS. DIPLOMATS CHILDREN GIVE IT. (Special.—lly Air Mall.) LONDON, December 23. Xomlon's lir.ust art show, opened this week at galleries in Bond .Street, is an exhibition of iwintinps by two Chinese child artists—u bov, aged and a girl of 0. They are Plato and Christina Chan, son and daughter of a Chinese diplomat now in London, and the . exhibition of more than 100 of their pictures was opened by Sabu, the elephant boy of the films. Plato will bo painting scenes or portraits "while you wait" for buyers every day during .the run of tho exhibition, which is to raise funds for the Kcd Cross. Plato has been painting over since lie could hold a brush. His pictures are quite in the modern Western style, and represent the child's conception of life. Ho is now engaged on a big canvas entitled "Kight is Might." It visualises the strength of tho British Empire, with a central figure of King George \I. at his Coronation, surrounded by Dominion emblems, and a host of political among whom one can detect Chamberlain, Churchill, Halifax, Eden and Lloyd George. Plato keeps on adding figures and emblems to this picture every day whenever any new idea strikes him.