The Archive · 1927

FROM THE CROW'S NEST

huge poster depicting a bon vivant in the act of putting down a barrage of tomato sauce on some white [food before him. Beneath this pic-riesha coolie who had just been manhandled by a Sikh constable. The coolie had a bowl of rice, He'likewise had a bleeding, and drops of gore fell into his scanty meal, greatly enhance the realism of the portrait above him. No harm in this, The second phase is quite different. It involves a window Messrs Holsway, Sunon & C which is displayed a delightful impressionism designed to ex-plait the virtues of Undulating Undies for Unsuspecting Undines. Here is art with a marked po} plus. considerable. realism.

it is striking proof of how simplicity of theme is sensed even by those whose knowledge of tech-unique is abysmal, The work under We had to shoulder through a considerable crowd to obtain our first glimpse of it, and we quickly realized the value'of the find, and our inability to do full justice to it, We hastened to apprise Paul, the Pootung Post, of what was transpiring. It was quite easy getting Paul to the picture. It took the better part of an hour to get him. away from it, "Marvellous!" hho kept repeating; and then, shak-we praise the God of the Open Hand and as we do so we realize our dependence upon Him, and there springs up in our hearts generosity and sympathy towards others and we go forth to life's tasks real ing that we are His children with a renewed spirit of courage and chereing his tion's mane, he scribbled on. an envelope,—

He lingered near the linger fied fell condone ong, hile, we besought of him, when finally consented to come away, "What of realism in art? Of two realistic pictures, which will attract better business, "The Angelus," or "A Nude Descending a Staires He hesitated only 'a moment. "The Angelus," he replied.

Which proves our point, There is no harm in "The Angelu RRL

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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