DOI Heft:
No. 282 (September 1916)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21262#0264
Studio- Talk
"a singer" (Mombitsho Art Exhibition, Tokyo) by terazaki kogyo
softer influences of the time. They have put busily engaged in the production of brocade robes
forward the name of Euphranor the Corinthian, for the participants in the ceremony, which was
but one can be sure of nothing without seeing the observed in accordance with the time-honoured
missing head. From the merely effective point customs of the land. Certain designs and colours
of view, we miss the head not at all. A figure like have come to be recognised as gotaiten kinen,
this does not want the finish of a head. The sense which means "in commemoration of the great
of beauty complete and lacking nothing invades us celebration." For lacquer and cloisonne artists,
when we look at it. We do not mind the mutila- potters and metal workers, it was a splendid chance
tion and after a time forget it. to show their skill and talent. Great painters of
Willy G. R. Benedictus. the day were called upon to decorate the walls,
panels and screens of the palaces used for the
occasion. Furthermore, artists of every branch
TOKYO.—Nothing in recent years has were kept busy, for presents were exchanged with
given so much stimulus to our art as a greater fervour than usual among the people,
the celebration of the formal accession who are fond of exchanging gifts. Above all,
to the Imperial throne which took place the occasion was in itself an inspiration for the
last winter. Master weavers of Kyoto had been artists.
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"a singer" (Mombitsho Art Exhibition, Tokyo) by terazaki kogyo
softer influences of the time. They have put busily engaged in the production of brocade robes
forward the name of Euphranor the Corinthian, for the participants in the ceremony, which was
but one can be sure of nothing without seeing the observed in accordance with the time-honoured
missing head. From the merely effective point customs of the land. Certain designs and colours
of view, we miss the head not at all. A figure like have come to be recognised as gotaiten kinen,
this does not want the finish of a head. The sense which means "in commemoration of the great
of beauty complete and lacking nothing invades us celebration." For lacquer and cloisonne artists,
when we look at it. We do not mind the mutila- potters and metal workers, it was a splendid chance
tion and after a time forget it. to show their skill and talent. Great painters of
Willy G. R. Benedictus. the day were called upon to decorate the walls,
panels and screens of the palaces used for the
occasion. Furthermore, artists of every branch
TOKYO.—Nothing in recent years has were kept busy, for presents were exchanged with
given so much stimulus to our art as a greater fervour than usual among the people,
the celebration of the formal accession who are fond of exchanging gifts. Above all,
to the Imperial throne which took place the occasion was in itself an inspiration for the
last winter. Master weavers of Kyoto had been artists.
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