ONLY SOMETIMES

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3827, 30 October 1936, Page 9

ONLY SOMETIMES

ART KNOWS NO FRONTIERS. It is often remarked that art knows no frontiers, and from the point of view of theory the saying is all right. It is a different matter when it comes to conveying works of ailt from one country to another, and the popular imagination has quite recently warmed to the tale of the | difficulties and hazards encountered in bringing from the East and takI ing back again many of the rarieties displayed at the exhibition of Chinese art in London, says the “Weekly Scotsman.” On a smaller scale, something of the same responsibibility attaches to the despatch of the sixty water-colour paintings which ' the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Winter Colours sent last month to New York. The paintings j are to be shown in several United States galleries, and, in return, the American Society of Water Colours is sending over a selection of works which will be shown at noxt year’s R.S.A. exhibition. Incidentally, Sir Godfrey Collins, who has sent to the Scottish Society a congratulatory message, appears to regard painting as a means whereby we may escape from the everyday things of life. We rather thought that the escapist view of art, like a good many other things, had already passed into the mists of antiquity.