"SARTORIAL BOLSHEVISM."
VBTISTS WHO PAINT BUTTONS ON WRONG SIDE. LONDON, May 7. Doos the traditional broad-minded-ness of artists in the matter of personal apparel communicate itself to their portraits? According to the journal! the Tailor and ('tutor, this year's Academy exhibition "abounds in examples of sartorial Bolshevism" reminiscent of the ransacking of a nightmare wardrobe. Commenting on individual pictures, the journal suggests that the "Man in a Blue Coat" was painted in a brown study, which may explain why the buttons'are on the wrong side. Bernard Shaw is depicted as wearing the worst coat in the Academy. Kor a problem picture entitled "Whv?" the paper supplies the answer,"- "Why did 1 Marry:-'—a man wearing such clothes would not have collar, seams, holes, and buttons." The portrait of the Shakespearean actor Maurice Muscovitch evokes the comment: "If Shylock's clothes were as discreditable as these, no wonder they spat upon his Jewish gaberdine." Augustus John is vigorously attacked for a portrait of Captain Guest (Secretary for Air), wlfo wears "a very slipshod tie, like a plant,"
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 402, 20 May 1922, Page 5
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174"SARTORIAL BOLSHEVISM." Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 402, 20 May 1922, Page 5
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