Studio: international art (50.1910)

Japanese Art and Artists of To-day.—/.

Painting

by Kawai Gyokudo. In
this work the artist en-
deavours to portray
nature under peculiar
conditions. A part of the
atmosphere is clear and
bright, while the other
is clouded, and there is
a suggestion of rain. It
shows the opposite
moods of the elements.
It is a very striking in-
tellectual example of
Japanese art, which is
almost beyond the scope
of the ordinary artist.

In the paintings of
Tokyo artists, showing
the work of the head,
in preference to the
hand, the composition,
generally speaking, is
good. Each picture has,
more or less, a centre.
This is well represented
by Tsuji-seppo, or Way-
side Preaching. A large
audience is shown listen-
ing to the preacher by
the wayside. In many
ways the composition is
very clever and so
executed that the ob-
server is naturally led to
the central figure, the
preacher.

Generally speaking,
there is little in the
creations of the Kyoto
artists that seems to pull
their pictures together,
with very few exceptions.
There is no centre and
the subject seems scat-
tered. Nevertheless,
they are wonderfully
strong in technique.
They paint a picture
rather with the hand
than with the head.
This is well illustrated
in Yamamoto Shunkyo’s
picture, entitled Pine in

“pheasant on rock” by AEAKi kampo (tokyo) Snow, exhibited at last

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