ART OF AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL
VIEW OF NOTED CARTOONIST
Cprrss association telegram.) » , AUCKLAND. March 18. “Australian aboriginal "art never rises above the standard that may be seen in pictures ‘commonly exhibited by socalled moderns,” said Mr Percy Leason, the well-known Australian artist, cartoonist, and authority on Australian native art. who arrived by the Monterey on the way to Melbourne. Mr Leason is well known as the creator ol “wire grass’* eacrtsKsos."
“The pictorial art of the aborigines is a very poor afla|r,” he said. t “la any opinion it is not equal to Ihe art of the cave people of France or of African bushmen.” , ~ ■ Referring to moderns, he said: You know, even if people don’t understand a particular form of art, they are always willing to give an artist the benefit of the doubt, and think there is something there that their inexperience can’t understand.”
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22355, 19 March 1938, Page 9
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