NEGLECT OF ART.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20197, 27 March 1931, Page 14

NEGLECT OF ART.

Cmc REspoNsrommua 4DDBIBBB m m. LESm./| The meed for a sense of respana£i)il3||| in things cultural as well as ptMstijl cal off the part of those in charge '«jp eivie affairs, for the establishment m a ftm#-** Iffge bay pirtanc eacji year fa* I*®*" -^ Gallery, awli for tie of eivie schoLusiipi to provide overseas training for Christelfureh artisan, formed the tns»f of an sUrea by J9r. G. 3C. I*. viee-president of the Canterbury of Arte, when declaring open -Ok Society's annual exhibition in the || of the president, Mr Cyras J. B| Williams, last evening. | "The City ought to have a corpora*^ spirit iaifeese matters," said pr.-ItA ter. to The people governing the <stj| ocght to realise that they are ee*| eeraed not only with kkS thing* a* drains and feoi&ths, bat with th»i thing* that aniister to the with, matters of general Wfcatj? for example, hare the 'City done for painting? /'

Xbe City's Part- ; ft Ik J"OH3&g man dtfITOSS of ke«m an artist in Christehnreh has as op portunity of attends one of the feed Sit school* in the Bestfcera Benpspfeie bat-it has been provided, not by tip City, fs* ft? the Wia he ha* dieted fu# feasang he iai to rely oat his oira usually nseagre nft sources if *e wi#h*s to gain the neceS «ry overseas eipepfpw- O® to Christchnreb his only of selling his worfc is the exbibitiißur of the Soeietj. ®e C**T to nothinz for him from begupangto cngb £SO tp buy a at the Anna* Exfe3n&» is aQ the raoaey tie Gij devotes to pictorial art * year. ... "My purpose is S»t to blame Of City aother&xsa, bat to hope that ifct posodca of the new Art GaHeirr hex) year jw «e the if* «■ oatlook oti genera? culture on Jne pel 0 f the City. Itis to fee hoped Hot tS«r the realiSitWHi wiH grow that «ne ®ea! ■aiKMKt of pictorial art is part ef the **> gpoSbaity ef the CSty Coose3 to tb citizens. . Jj •|T» tiußgn es» 1M? m"j! nrwrimtm » « "P fsadr-,to ieepnt &mi ft* ** purm of pfeturrs to pfa« i* pHW; apart frem any qa«tien «t rti H&OT aamtqwe. Seeomi, m if ■ 555 S^S^rff «Ssr SefiSwre—#«■ » mM ■am ; gjp*?«pfer ■ I"*"*® SnTbir *- A- W*mnjl $e wfcet w* caas fc» gaasag M-<fee pife m gpftaniay