MODERN ART
Sir.—Once again the Academy Exhibition has come and gone (or nearly so) and once again one is left with the provoking thought that each show is exactly the same*as the preceding one— the same old views, seascapes, etc.— whereas there should be (and is) a much wider range of interesting subjects from which to choose. I think the trouble is that any room available for those outside the inner circle is lamentably small. Of late, I understand, fully twothirds of the work submitted has been rejected—in a word most of those which differ from the selection committee's restricted ideas—and I make bold to say that if an exhibition of the rejects could be held one would find a much greater variety of thought and subjects than is usually displayed and with nothing lacking in the way of skill.
Encouragement of new ideas and new artists should be a very real consideration of any academy, but *in New Zealand, unfortunately, with the possible exception of Auckland, this fact is not accepted.—l am, etc..
A. HAMILTON MITCHELL
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 135, 9 June 1945, Page 6
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177MODERN ART Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 135, 9 June 1945, Page 6
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