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Left Bread and butter painting 1966 photographs and drawing, 96 x 48 in. Coll : Mr Malcolm Lazarus,
London

Below centre Chained tusker 1965 coloured inks, 21½ x 29½ in. Coll : Miss Barbara Griggs, London
Below right Drawing 1968 pen drawing, 30 x 40 in.

Untitled 1967 watercolour and inks, 9 x 22 in.

any other work of art. In consequence—and reversing the metaphor which nevertheless exercise an unchanging influence on successive
— the number of people to whom art appeals becomes fewer as the generations--these are accessible to the mystic and the artist. But
art itself becomes purer. When someone is attracted by a work of art, only the artist can give them material forms.
he experiences an emotion at once pronounced and spontaneous.
There may be people who have a natural gift for enjoying works of
art, but even they have little idea of how much they miss through
lack of experience, or how great a difference there is between an
approximate, instinctive impression and the mature critical sense.
It was in village life that I learned that even a simple street is a line
of communication as well as a means of transportation. There is a
visual excitement in the open market. The daily education of the
senses is the elemental groundwork for all higher forms of education.
Where it exists in daily life, a community may even be spared the
burden of having to arrange courses in art appreciation. It is a
mistake to assume that a complex form of civilization necessarily
means a high development of the arts, for this is often far from being
the case. The simplest village economy may exhibit a higher develop-
ment of the arts in relation to the people living in that village than
can be found in the most sophisticated of cities. Society has not only
a suppressive function—it has also a creative one.
It is very important for me to get across to people. I don't believe
that I have come here just to live for myself, nor to create an art
for myself, nor to satisfy my own self-expression. The deeper Avinash Chandra's work is being exhibited at the Rose Fried Gallery, New
intuitions of the mind which are neither rational nor economic, but York, October-November.