MODERN PAINTING.
[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, Yourreviewer of my article on " Modern Painting " in the Edinburgh Review says : " He gives us to understand that painters have recovered from the pre-war follies of Cubism and the like." That is very nearly the truth, but not quite. My point is that, being based on two fallacies—(1) that strength is beauty; (2) that a straight is stronger than a curved line— Cubism has been found impotent as a means to beauty. As an instrument of satire, however, Cubism has been successful when applied. to any conception which regards man as a machine and not as a human being. Therefore, the wise painters have retained Cubism for what they hate, and have recovered realism for the things they love.—I am, Sir, Srx.,
FRANK RUTTER.
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