THE EMPIRE ART LOAN AND EXHIBITION
TO Tnp. EDITOR OP THE MESS. Sir, —In your issue of Monday I read a letter signed W. Basil Honour. The Empire Loan Exhibition contains a few aged pictures, which will pass mustei but the rest are only fit for a bonfire. It is an insult to the intelligence of the community to try to foist such awful rubbish on them as pictures. They are like nothing on earth but themselves, and we shall all be thankful when they are away from our shores. Mr Honour says that we do not understand them. We certainly do not want to; we are striving to understand nature as it is on this earth. My old master used to say that he did not study Rembrandt, but he studied what Rembrandt had studied in nature. What the people who have painted these monstrosities have studied it is hard to say, for it is certainly not anything on this planet. I am not speaking of the etchings, as I did not see them, for I was so full of the pictures that I made my stay a very short one. May I say that there are a few of us who hav.e perhaps seen as many pictures as Mr Honour, and who know and appreciate a real picture when we see one.' —Yours, etc., VAN DER VELDEN'S PUPIL. July 10, 1934.
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21213, 11 July 1934, Page 7
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