[英文] 對藝術的不忠　貝登堡勳爵參觀學院後感

ADULTERIES OF ART.

LORD BADEN-POWELL ON THE ACADEMY.

Lord Baden-Powell, the Chief Scout, who is an artist and has exhibited sculpture at the Royal Academy, made some caustic comments on this year's pictures when opening an exhibition of arts and crafts at Alton, Hampshire.

He said he had just left the Academy, where he was told there was a notable picture by a girl aged fifteen. When he heard that he was more than surprised, because he thought a large number of pictures there must be by children of five, and he was glad to learn that at least one was by a girl of fifteen.

The Academy exhibition was very depressing to him, and all he could say about it was to quote Ben Jonson:

Adulteries of art

They strike mine eyes but not my heart.

"One sees too much of people," he said, "who are 'nobodies' trying to inflict upon us some awful things on canvas to entice people to go and find out the names of those who painted them."

資料：

1. 中華民國21年5月30日（星期一）《孖剌西報》第9頁

   • 壬申年四月廿五日

   • 公元1932年5月30日（星期一）