N.Z. SOCIETY OF ARTISTS.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20904, 11 July 1933, Page 16

N.Z. SOCIETY OF ARTISTS.

DR. LESTER'S APPROVaII OPPORTUNITY FOR YtfnjSK GROUP. Til Approval of the formatiojjpChristchurch of the new art aramm, isation to be known as the land Society of Artists wasiK pressed yesterday by Dr. G. Tffiaßff' Lester, president of the Ca&tagHjp Society of Arts. Dr. Lesttfti&E that so far as he had graspedK objects of the new society, '4!«| speaking personally and not as S sident of the Society of Art»iffl| welcomed its establishment, ' ; sl|l| '"l'here is no aouot that in jHuifi Christchurch, just as in the bu& centres of Lionaon and •Paris.'SH is room for more than one which has as its main objectivejEi exhibition of contemporary wafflf of art," he said. "It is also ohyM that those who have seen thejwgl tory of art in Christchurch fmnffijSl inside for the last 20 or 30 yeSmt, that the senior society stands XsiK for tradition in art than for-e»pߧl|-The Two Art Organisatiwa,« "I do not gather, and from'wiff I know of the artists concernalSi the new movement, I do not «j2b§ pate that their society will iBHH§ way oppose the older hinder its working. It is, of qmm possible that the Society of ffiHg|. may lose a few subscribers, butffiJK? in view of the enormous nuaujgAJi who might be added to scription list in the future,,; ftsßi small matter. -HMI "Personally, I have always «H for some development of lent work done by the smalt s!■»■ of artists who have called -fmßsM selves by the name of the dmHEH year (the 1932 group, and SjimEffl Those who know as well as difficulties which face a rattw(|HH9 rogeneous council in iudgiQfnil tures for the annual exMfeftkflHHfl at once admit that many yptaJBHP tists will find a freer scope raoH9 exhibition of their works in afflflfßW hibition which is more up-toMJnHKI "The fact that the P r(nn JPgiNHl the new society aim at mwHI New Zealand-wide instead i|W merely provincial group meetjaflMaM may say so without P res( 1 with my cordial approvaL" ;|BH|