AN ARTIST’S COMPLAINT.

Matamata Record, Volume X, Issue 812, 14 March 1927, Page 2

AN ARTIST’S COMPLAINT.

“lin these days of confusion of ide'a.s and uncertain Is'toandands of ideals in the world of industry literature, music and .painting it is most difficult fox the average man 'to kinow wWait are the trulei excellences in the Atrts to admire and 'enjoy. Real art criticism is dead, and therefore in the Press there is no genuine guide to follow. It is confuting enough to the artist to know whtere hjls,' judgments, s'tand when he reads ta man praising the woirksi of a Great .Mastier, say, like Velasquez or Titi'ain, and the same winter uses the feame group of words ;in praising a

modem jazz picture, a picture which, in all proihalbillity the General Assem-

bly o£ the Royal Academy would have rejected 'as unworthy of the name of Art. Life to-day throws ibut little enthusiasm into itg arts, i Yet there bos . f never been more executive ability and talent in tfhe fielld of airtistiic enter-prise.’"—-Mr Frank O. Salisbury, the wtell known painter, who-hais exhibited for many Christmas numbers of the “British Weekly/'