DOI Heft:
Nr. 194 (May 1909)
DOI Artikel:Frantz, Henri: The water-colours of M. Jeanés
DOI Artikel:Holme, Charles: Western influence upon art in Japan
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20966#0306
WESTERN INFLUENCE
UPON ART IN JAPAN.
BY CHARLES HOLME.
Western Influence upon Art in fa-pan
shown to still greater advantage, and makes one
think of no less a person than the great Turner
himself. Henri Frantz.
“OHAGO” BY CHOUN YAMAZAKI
unjust not to remember many other works in-
spired by diverse motifs. This exhibition, which,
as I have mentioned above, is being held at the
gallery of M. Dewambez, shows us not only
Jeanes the painter of mountains, but another
Jeanes whose work is no less delightful, a Jeanes
painter of the sea, a Jeanes astoundingly adroit.
He could not be the possessor of a vision so
infinitely sensitive, such as we know him to have,
and not be tempted to paint other scenes, or
fail to respond to all the witcheries of nature.
Our readers will call to mind certain reproduc-
tions which we have already published of works
by this artist (see The Studio for last December,
in which two of his Dolomite pictures exhibited
at the last Salon d’Automne were reproduced),
and in those that appear accompanying this
article his wonderful power as a colourist is
280
“A SLEEPING GIRL” BY KUNITARO TERAMATSU
For some time past it has been evident that
the influence of the West upon Japan is not
to be confined to science or commerce or social
habits, but that it is permeating all the varied
manifestations of artistic activity. For the last
twenty years, drawing with the hard point and
painting in oil colours have been taught the
young students in the Government Schools of
Art in Tokio, and the progress that has been
made in that time is astonishingly great.
Visitors to the last Great International Exhi-
bition in Paris will remember the display of
paintings in the Western manner in the Japanese
section. The result was not by any means suc-
cessful, judged by the standard of Europe and
America ; and the whole artistic world exclaimed
against the folly of a great people setting aside its
wonderful traditions and its masterly technique
for such feeble imitations of Western conven-
tions as were exhibited on that occasion.
UPON ART IN JAPAN.
BY CHARLES HOLME.
Western Influence upon Art in fa-pan
shown to still greater advantage, and makes one
think of no less a person than the great Turner
himself. Henri Frantz.
“OHAGO” BY CHOUN YAMAZAKI
unjust not to remember many other works in-
spired by diverse motifs. This exhibition, which,
as I have mentioned above, is being held at the
gallery of M. Dewambez, shows us not only
Jeanes the painter of mountains, but another
Jeanes whose work is no less delightful, a Jeanes
painter of the sea, a Jeanes astoundingly adroit.
He could not be the possessor of a vision so
infinitely sensitive, such as we know him to have,
and not be tempted to paint other scenes, or
fail to respond to all the witcheries of nature.
Our readers will call to mind certain reproduc-
tions which we have already published of works
by this artist (see The Studio for last December,
in which two of his Dolomite pictures exhibited
at the last Salon d’Automne were reproduced),
and in those that appear accompanying this
article his wonderful power as a colourist is
280
“A SLEEPING GIRL” BY KUNITARO TERAMATSU
For some time past it has been evident that
the influence of the West upon Japan is not
to be confined to science or commerce or social
habits, but that it is permeating all the varied
manifestations of artistic activity. For the last
twenty years, drawing with the hard point and
painting in oil colours have been taught the
young students in the Government Schools of
Art in Tokio, and the progress that has been
made in that time is astonishingly great.
Visitors to the last Great International Exhi-
bition in Paris will remember the display of
paintings in the Western manner in the Japanese
section. The result was not by any means suc-
cessful, judged by the standard of Europe and
America ; and the whole artistic world exclaimed
against the folly of a great people setting aside its
wonderful traditions and its masterly technique
for such feeble imitations of Western conven-
tions as were exhibited on that occasion.