MODERN ART
Sir, —Mr. C. F. Goldie gives wlni he styles "excellent and irrehit," able reasons " for exluding all amples of modern art from the gallery As the purpose of ah Art Gallery is to provide representative works of all periods for study and comparison, then can 'be no irrefutable reason—or any reason a>t all —for denying to anyone period the right to be represented. One can no more logically exclude the modern movements in painting than one could bar, for instance, the Italian primitives or the French classicists. Mr Goldie would tell us that art died quietly _in the eighteen nineties, and deny with heated words its triumphant resurrection, but fortunately his difc like of modern ideas is beside"the point as we are dealing with a question net of personal taste, but of justice. I think there is too wide a gulf between Mr. Goldie's point of view end mine tq make any further discussion profitable. VIVIENN'E H. KeKNOT. '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21919, 1 October 1934, Page 12
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