PUZZLE PICTURES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3687, 23 November 1912, Page 10

PUZZLE PICTURES.

POST-IMPRESSIONIST ARTISTS’ SHOW AT GRAFTON GALLERIES.

There is a collection of pictures on view at the Grafton Galleries • which will at any rate keep visitors busy guessing at what they are supposed' to represonte. They have been painted by artists of the Post-Impression-ist scliol, and doubtless are gems of art—to those who understand their "inner significance.” In one a very tall, weird-faced man in what looks like a woollen suit and jack boots is apparently about to try a fall in the oatcli-as-catch-can style with a. boy with a head like a tapir. Why the picture is called “The Dead Mole,” only the artist knows.

Another canvas might be the portrait of a man who has just had a severe light with a battering man. He has his hat on the back of his head, one eye is closed, the Pose is considerably out of register, the lips are puff-/ od, and the head is resting wearily on the left hand. The picture is en- 1 titled “The Mustard Pot.” Then there is a curious criss-cross o

lines and meaningless patterns with a splash of purple in the right corner. On this vivid touch of color there are two words clearly painted—MOZAßT, KUBELICK. Whether it is intended. to be a portrait of one or other of these famous musicians (with one name wrongly spelt), whether both their likenesses are hidden somewhere or whether the weird affair is supposed to he symbolical has been a hotly debated question. “Books and Bottles” is the title of a canvas which the uninitiated would say represented an old-world marketplace on a winter’s night,, while another, looking like a slate on which a half-finished and half-obliterated game of noghts and crosses has been-pi a,> s-d. is dubbed i“Creation.”