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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 25, No. 7. 1962.

Form and Content in N.Z. Painting

Form and Content in N.Z. Painting

One cannot, in a short article, do anything like justice to the complex question I would like to discuss today. Can there, in the first place, be any absolute and objective art criticism? Manifestly no. Objective Art criticism is no more possible than objective art; but the necessity of art criticism is incontestible. What qualities ought a critic to have? He must have sound judgment, knowledge and instinct; he must defend sincerity, greatness—in God's own country this is one aspect rarely calling for its defence because of its singular absence and purity.