APPRECIATION OF ART.
As a means for stimulating an appreciation of art in New Zealand "Art for Goodness Sake" suggests the creation of a fund by Government subsidy or private beneficence to enable promising art students to study abroad on the condition that they return to try to transplant some of the modern thought on art in "our singularly barren aesthetic terrain." He also suggests bringing loan collections of art from overseas "to assure people who live in our midst that art did not cease from the year 1700." A third suggestion is that the public be educated to an appreciation of art by lectures and libraries as well as by instruction in colleges and universities; "One can well ask," he., says, "what sort of art appreciation can evolve, from an education solely devised for} the purpose of turning out accountants and lawyers." The correspondent also criticises the "insincerity" of our architecture and the "anomaly of haying large sums frittered away, on bad memorials and; the artless academic portraits which clutter up our galleries."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 83, 7 April 1936, Page 10
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174APPRECIATION OF ART. Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 83, 7 April 1936, Page 10
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