THE CHERNIAVSKYS AND ART

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6542, 25 February 1928, Page 10

THE CHERNIAVSKYS AND ART

ON FRIDAY NEXT. Tho Chcrniavsky Trioi, who are returning to Palmerston North very shortly take a tremendous interest in Art as. well as music. They express themselves as quite in accord with the views of their manager in his writings on Laka, the Hawaiian Goddess of Art. Eeferring to tho ancient times, the writer said: — “Laka taught them that beauty was a law of manifestation to which they must make all objects and institutions conform. Their ancient religion was beautiful sc that it made their art creative Laka would not tolerate imitative art; for she understood that there was too little growth involved in it. For growth in art we must have spontaneity; or when wc have spontaniety wo have the magnetism and glamour induced through the exertion of the creative principle. “No lasting happiness without art and uo perfection of thought, without perfection of form” was tho message of Laka to tho Hawaiians. It was the message of Troth of Egypt. This message was given to every great civilisation. Orpheus inspired Greece with it. . Pythagoras gave it a psychological basis and until wo drive it into the consciousness of our corpse, like alleged civilisation, tho latter will not take unto itself a beautiful form. “Curved is the line of beauty” said Ruskin, and we can say “beauteous is the line of a decent civilisation” for beauty is tho most intimate aspect of I Divinity.” 1