EVERY MAN'S ART.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20234, 19 February 1934, Page 5

EVERY MAN'S ART.

“Not Queer Chaps with Long Hair.” MR F. A. SHURROCK’S ADDRESS. A vigorous attack on the definition of art as something outside the life of the everyday man—something only to be expressed by “ queer chaps who wore their hair long,” was made by Mr F. A. Shurrock in an address to the New Zealand Society of Artists on Saturday evening. Every man had potentiality as an artist who could “ do and make,” he said, and art existed in all the handwork of man. “ Let’s get to the job and set such a standard that our work becomes an art,” he said. “ Don’t do it for the firm, for the boss, because we are paid to do it, or to earn money for the directors—joy in the making. It is only thus that we can become thoroughly efficient, not with the cheapjack efficiency that says * I can turn out so many things in an hour.* If our conditions of work are such that we cannot make an art of it, then let ue take up a hobby in w’hich we find expression for ourselves.”