NORMAN LINDSAY’S ART
OPINIONS OF EMINENT PAINTERS. LONDON, October 11. Commenting on the exhibition of Australian <art, th§ "Daily Chronicle states that it will surprise many who- expected to find a new school and will agreeably disappoint those who expected a low standard of achievement in a country so new and distant. The show is of sterling quality without anything first rate and hardly anything third rate. The firstraters have yet to come. The death of Ramsay robbed Australia of a master. His “The Sisters” was well on the way to being a great achievement. Norman Lindsay is impressive and possesses extraordinary fecundity of invention, out his draughtsmanship is unexpectedly weak.
Sir William Orpen, R.A., interviewed on behalf of the Daily Express, said: “The. Australian Exhibition is good and shows, great promise for a yoiung nation, but please ignore its black spot, .Lindsay His work is bad. It has no sign of art and has no technique. It is nothing. Ignore it.”
Mr Charles Sims, it.A., in an interview, said: “I'have seen Lindsay’s nudes. They are not fine works of art, and 1 do not like them, but I do not object to them. _ I have seen enually offensive pictures in newspapers. They are pictures of no importance and are in no way remarkable.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18995, 17 October 1923, Page 7
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