Art Victory Over Fact
5 Art of the modern school has scored a notable victory. In future the painter who insists on pink grass and purple cows may cite judgment of the King's » Courts in reply to his old-fasMoned . critics. One such critic was a farmer who was sued. He had commissioned 5 the plaintiff painter to make a picture t of his prize bull. But when the work of art was complete, he refused to pay , for it. It was, he said, nothing like his . bull. What is more, the artist agreed that the colour of the painted bull was , different from the colour of the real bull. But the objections were useless The defence failed. Thus is an important principle established. The farmer may be a sound judge of bulls in the flesh, but the painter remains the captain of his own artistic soul. Bulls that spring from his creative imagination *iall be of the shape and colour he pleases.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 12 July 1933, Page 8
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162Art Victory Over Fact Horowhenua Chronicle, 12 July 1933, Page 8
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