ABORIGINE ART
AUSTRALIAN CARTOONIST’S COMMENT | Per Preen Association. ] AUCKLAND, March 18. “Australian aboriginal art never rises above the standard that may bo seen in pictures commonly exhibited by so-called moderns,” said Mr Percy Leason, the well-known Australian artist and cartoonist and an authority on Australian native art, who arrived by the Monterey on his way to Melbourne. Mr Leason is well known as the creator of the “wire grass” cartoons. “The pictorial art of the aborigines is a very poor affair,” he said. “In my opinion it is not equal to the art of the cave people of France or the African bushmen.” Referring to the moderns, he said: “You know, even if people don’t understand a particular form of art they are always willing to give the artist the benefit of the doubt and think that there is something there that their inexperience can’t understand.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 66, 19 March 1938, Page 10
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