SOJOURN IN TAHITI.
ARTIST’S LONG STAY. WELLINGTON, June 25. A picturesque traveller on the Maunganui yesterday was Mr W. A. MacDonald, 73 years old and bearded, who is returning to England after an absence of 14 years in Tahiti. He is a water-colour artist, and he went there to paint because he had been told it was a beautiful place. He remained longer than he thought he would. Now he is returning to England to exhibit about 50 of his pictures. Although Tahiti. is still considered by him to be a beautifuL place, he said that he thought it had changed for the worse. The natives were becoming more generally degenerated, and with an increasing number of half-castes the old race was passing away. “Nature is greater than any art theories,” said Mr MacDonald, when asked if he had kept in touch with all modern art during his stay in Tahiti. He did not believe in the modern trend in art. As far as be was concerned be •painted'things as he saw them, and according to the impression they gave him. That was why he believed his painting had proved to be so popular, he said. People liked it because it had truth. Mr MacDonald remarked that he had been paying tremendous attention to water-eoiour technique, which was extremely difficult, much more so than oil technique
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 176, 25 June 1935, Page 2
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