Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 25. No. 12. 1962
Failure
Failure
Day's Triptych, "Bastions of City" is, in my opinion, a failure We all know of that confession made by Kadinsky: " one evening lit Munich I stood speechless before a picture in which I could only distinguish form and colours, its purport remaining incomprehensible."
It was, of course, his own work hung upside-down, (I wonder, by the way, if that maestro of the Bela Siki Master-classes, Mr Maconie, could enlighten us as to whether there was any likelihood of the straining downwards" process being involved?).
However be that as it may with Mr Kidinsky, I had a somewhat similar experience before Mr Day's without the "straining downwards", I might add, and hung the right way up (or so I presume).