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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21913, 24 September 1934, Page 12

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gj P; —J think that if Eve Vailo vers to re-read my letter she would that she had misread it. 1 did not refer to noises outside the concert hall, but inside it, and I will here resect, fully suggest that an imitative picture is on a par with jazz music—a picture by McWhirter or Leader is just as re* pulsive to me as the worst forn> of jazz; I will leave Mr. Goldie out ofNt." When I mentioned pictures produced by mechanical means, I was not referring to reproduction. I was referring to colour photography, so there was no point in Eve Vaile's sarcasm. As a matter of fact, the point is hardly arguable; a picture is looked upon by alf people as a harmony in colour or form, or both, and any at* tempt at imitation results in failure; the interpretation of an idea by meana of form and colour has no hard and fast rules; even violent distortion may be necessary to accentuate an idea. There, is no" room for orthodoxy in art, any attempt at repression would result in stagnation; dynamic or progressive art as opposed to static or savage art—* I believe the Maoris had strict rules as to what should and should not be carved in wood —any disobedience re* suited in a fractured skull for th» offender. Oliver Pocock.