ART AND ARTISTS.
500 YEARS' ST A G AT .
NO CREATIVE EXPRESSION.
: "We are right in an epidemic of soldiers' memorials, and, therefore, it is unnecessary to dwell on plastic arts," said Mr. Walter Burley Griffin, in the course of a paper on the status of. architecture to the Australian Institute of Arts and Literature in Melbourne last. week. ; Soldiers!, memorials, .■ ho .said, were . art •'expressions'- governed by modern conditions. lie did not. blame the artists, but the ' conditions under which they worked. There had not been one "single; creative expression added to the architecture in the last 500 years. He might be able to mention one, but .in all probability it would bo disputed. He blamed the trend of the modern • world for denying the artist, a full expression., of new ideas. Tho artist of to-day was a slave, and; a. drudge, if he was not a parasite or a panderer.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18498, 7 September 1923, Page 9
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