Young Painters In Tahiti
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From Our Own Correspondent Papeete, October 10.
PAPEETE has had many exhibitions of paintings—from the extraordinarily beautiful, authentic pictures of Islands life by Count Morillot, who lived on Tahaa; through the horrors of lip stick vermilion: swamp green, cadaver purple and gutter-mud brown, spattered and daubed on or heaved at canvas by the miscellaneous swarm of would-be Gauguins; to the exquisite water-colours of the Scotsman, MacDonald.
A recent exhibition of paintings has attracted universal interest: for it rep resents the results of study and work by young people born in our islands.
The young painters have been under the guidance of the distinguished artist M. Serge Gres, who has long resided in the Islands. Monsieur Gres, as a labour of love, has selected a small group who have exhibited marked talent, and has trained and guided them in the art of painting until they have produced wor,ks
worthy of inspection by those competent to pass judgment.
No one of this group of pupils is over twenty years of age. Yet they have pro duced pictures which have merited the highest praise.
The Colonial Government has set apart a parcel of land in the Museum property as the site of a studio for this admirable undertaking. The interest shown by our people in intellectual and cultural values presents the most heart ening promise for the future pattern of Islands life.