Fashions in art were as capricious as the whims of women’s dress, said Professor F. P. Worley, speaking before the Auckland Society of Arts. Recently it had been the fashion to lay paint thickly on a canvas—he was referring to oils—but that was changing. There was a tendency for a style of careful drawing to return. Such a painting, where one stroke looked as though it had saved half a dozen, appeared to have been finished in the minimum of time with the least effort. What was forgotten was the tremendous amount of labour that had been done on previous pictures, so that the one stroke of the brush could convey boldly the same impression as many less vigorous strokes.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 220, 13 June 1936, Page 28
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