ART’S TIMELESSNESS : LONDON EXHIBITION
LONDON. A carved Melanesian flying fish with a six-foot wing-span, which was' believed to bring death to any woman who gazed upon it, is now displayed in the “Forty Thousand years of Modern Art exhibition.
The purpose of the exhibition is to show the timelessness of art and the kinship between artists of 40,000 years ago and moderns like Picasso and Henry Moore. Prehistoric cave drawings, Maori art from New Zealand, negro religious fetishes, Indian totem poles, and war god masks from the Caribbean are shown beside outstanding modern exhibits by cubists, surrealists and impressionists.
Film shows and public discussions, in which painters, sculptors and anthropologists debate the relationship between primitive and modern arts are part of the exhibition, which may bring nearer reality the project of a permanent arts centre in Britain.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22850, 21 January 1949, Page 6
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137ART’S TIMELESSNESS : LONDON EXHIBITION Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22850, 21 January 1949, Page 6
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