A SCATHING ART CRITIC.
Si"nor Dattilo-Rubbo severely criticised the art exhibits which he judged at the Bathurst Show, say? the "Sydney Mornin" Herald." I" an interview, ho said that until the principles of painting were more cultivated, rather than have baa art encouraged, be. would prefer that the money now Riven ns prizes in the art section should be utilised in the improvement of the-city, and that students, rather than waste their time arid energy in such a direction, should turn, to the learning, of. something more useiul—the female student to- cookery, millinery, or such like accomplishments: and the males to something which wnmtl save Wem from becoming pure Irafing aiMSts. Artists were born, not made.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1118, 4 May 1911, Page 9
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116A SCATHING ART CRITIC. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1118, 4 May 1911, Page 9
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