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...Seas International exposition has been thrown open at Dunedin, "most southerly of the world's large communities." As everyone knows, Dunedin is beautifully located 15 miles from the open sea, at the head of Otago harbor, famed stamping ground of the aboriginal Maoris, who manufactured there a native pigment with which they smeared their bodies, as did the early Britons. In 1861 Dunedin was the scene of one of the mad scrambles for gold which sent so many adventurers flocking to New Zealand. Now it has grown decorous, sprouted an embryo culture. As the Exposition got under way local...
...masters. The public is skeptical. Wherefore, France and the world of science contributed last week a new practical test for the discovery of fakes. Ultraviolet rays and colored lights thrown upon the paintings under suspicion show, when photographed, the method of brush-work and the exact kind of pigment used by the artist...
...thesis is that modernist painting, about which both laity and the profession rage, is not painting at all. It is " the art of color " and has developed by a historical accident through the medium of oil, pigment and canvas, to which it bears no essential relation. The true, traditional painting is pictorial draughtsmanship. Its tools are line and mass, black, white and gray. Its function is decoration in public and private buildings. It reached its apex in Rubens (1577-1640), and since then no fundamental advances have been made - merely improvements in method, conquests of technical problems, emotionally impotent...
...color art of the future will abandon pigment and concern itself exclusively with light and vibration. It will bear a closer relation to music and drama than to painting. It will be a highly stimulating, spectacular and temporary species of entertainment, responding to the intenser physiological and emotional needs of the modern machineage. The color organ experiments of Wallace Rimington, Scriabine and Thomas Wilfred are partial, but limited, steps in this direction...
...WHITE FLOWER-Another of those Hawaiian pictures concerning a beautiful half-caste with too many beaux of different shades of pigment. Well-photographed and with interesting bits of local color...