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DOI Artikel:Oliver, Maude I. G.: Japanese art at the St. Louis Exhibition
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Japanese Art at the St. Louis Exhibition
Orient has been retained, while representation, in a veritable symphony in delicate lavenders. The
its larger sense, has been added. His landscape, imperial court artist and professorof theTokioSchool
entitled Windy Day in the Mountains, was an im- of Fine Art, Mr. Kwampo Araki, sent a distinguished
pressive study into which had entered the actual study in decoration in his Pheasants on a Rock
spirit of the elements, as viewed in a minor key. among Wild Autumn Flowers by a Lake. This de-
The sweep of a gale, expressed in the bent lightful intimacy with the creatures of the woods,
trees, and the suggestive lines of the composition, the plains, and even of the deep, which prevails so
were realism idealized. Mr. Hashimoto was also largely in Japanese representation, is one of the
admirably seen in his representation of snow, as ever-present charms of an art, which in its expres-
a fleecy caressing mantle, in the screen entitled sion is unique, inimitable, and complete. To this
Snow, and a poetic record of the purity of a winter class belongs the admirable picture by Muramatsu
landscape was seen in Bunkio Nomura's subject entitled Crow and Pine in Snow. Here was noticeable
entitled Kiyomidsu Temple in Snow. a solidity of modelling that suggested the European
Another artist who gets at the heart of things is school, but this rather graphic technique is balanced
Mr. Jippo Araki, and his autumn scene, catalogued sufficiently by a corresponding degree of simplicity
as Mandarin and Wild Ducks among Reeds in Lake, and artistic interest in arrangement. In it the
was an intelligent and appreciative rendering. Mr. mass of a stout gnarled bough, together with bushy
Araki, to whom the subtleties of atmosphere strongly twigs, snow-laden, is relieved by one slender branch
appeal, gives in this subject, a tuneful description of reaching diagonally across the picture, and support-
the character of the season. And Takahashi's land- ing what becomes a subtle accent of colour in the
scape, Cottage among Pines,
with Mountains in Dis-
tance, is a panel contain-
ing but a few very simple
spots of colour, yet so
charmingly arranged as to
suggest the delicacy of
gauze and the softness of
velvet. Then, for records
of grand scenic pano-
ramas, Hokkai Takashima
has shown himself ex-
ceptionally gifted, more
particularly as he has
demonstrated that the
Japanese feeling may be
applied to the scenery of
foreign lands, as well as
to the fair country of Japan.
Mr. Takashima has suc-
cessfully rendered two
striking views from the
American Rockies, show-
ing all the grace and dex-
terity of the Japanese
handling combined with the
true spirit of the American
wilds. In connection
with mountainous views,
a very beautiful mountain
gorge was presented in a
landscape by Yamamoto,
who also gave an exquisite
treatment of the wistaria, design for wall-paper by geiko uyino
244
Orient has been retained, while representation, in a veritable symphony in delicate lavenders. The
its larger sense, has been added. His landscape, imperial court artist and professorof theTokioSchool
entitled Windy Day in the Mountains, was an im- of Fine Art, Mr. Kwampo Araki, sent a distinguished
pressive study into which had entered the actual study in decoration in his Pheasants on a Rock
spirit of the elements, as viewed in a minor key. among Wild Autumn Flowers by a Lake. This de-
The sweep of a gale, expressed in the bent lightful intimacy with the creatures of the woods,
trees, and the suggestive lines of the composition, the plains, and even of the deep, which prevails so
were realism idealized. Mr. Hashimoto was also largely in Japanese representation, is one of the
admirably seen in his representation of snow, as ever-present charms of an art, which in its expres-
a fleecy caressing mantle, in the screen entitled sion is unique, inimitable, and complete. To this
Snow, and a poetic record of the purity of a winter class belongs the admirable picture by Muramatsu
landscape was seen in Bunkio Nomura's subject entitled Crow and Pine in Snow. Here was noticeable
entitled Kiyomidsu Temple in Snow. a solidity of modelling that suggested the European
Another artist who gets at the heart of things is school, but this rather graphic technique is balanced
Mr. Jippo Araki, and his autumn scene, catalogued sufficiently by a corresponding degree of simplicity
as Mandarin and Wild Ducks among Reeds in Lake, and artistic interest in arrangement. In it the
was an intelligent and appreciative rendering. Mr. mass of a stout gnarled bough, together with bushy
Araki, to whom the subtleties of atmosphere strongly twigs, snow-laden, is relieved by one slender branch
appeal, gives in this subject, a tuneful description of reaching diagonally across the picture, and support-
the character of the season. And Takahashi's land- ing what becomes a subtle accent of colour in the
scape, Cottage among Pines,
with Mountains in Dis-
tance, is a panel contain-
ing but a few very simple
spots of colour, yet so
charmingly arranged as to
suggest the delicacy of
gauze and the softness of
velvet. Then, for records
of grand scenic pano-
ramas, Hokkai Takashima
has shown himself ex-
ceptionally gifted, more
particularly as he has
demonstrated that the
Japanese feeling may be
applied to the scenery of
foreign lands, as well as
to the fair country of Japan.
Mr. Takashima has suc-
cessfully rendered two
striking views from the
American Rockies, show-
ing all the grace and dex-
terity of the Japanese
handling combined with the
true spirit of the American
wilds. In connection
with mountainous views,
a very beautiful mountain
gorge was presented in a
landscape by Yamamoto,
who also gave an exquisite
treatment of the wistaria, design for wall-paper by geiko uyino
244