DOI issue:
No. 292 (July 1917)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21263#0095
Studio-Talk
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"SUNSET ON SNOW." BY MIKI-
BUNKWA
strength and quality of the brushwork. Mere
technicality is by no means the life of old art,
but there is something precious in the old
artistic ideal of depicting an object with the
fewest possible strokes of the brush, stress being
laid not so much on the physical form as on the
spirit of the thing painted. It has aimed to
express the texture, colour, form, and life of an
object with a single brush-stroke. It empha-
sizes an idealistic quality in art. Whatever
style be chosen, the picture has to possess
" noble simplicity " and kihin, or dignity, which,
according to painters of the old school, depends
much upon the brushwork, and no less upon
the spirit with which it is painted.
One of the best pictures by contemporary
artists at this exhibition was the landscape by
Osaka-Shiden reproduced on p. 81. Shiden has
shown, by his works of similar nature, a sympa-
thetic understanding of landscape of this
character. There is no strain in the composi-
tion : things are presented in their natural
order with a technique well suited to reveal
the delicate charm of nature in tranquillity.
Another noteworthy painting, also reproduced
here, was the Summer Landscape by Dan-
Ranshyu. This artist has a wonderful power
of depicting mist and clouds, especially the
mysterious beauty of sunshine seen through a
thin veil of mist or cloud. Such a quality was
well shown in his Moving Clouds, shown at the
Panama-Pacific Exposition at San Francisco in
1915, and already reproduced in these pages
{see The Studio, p. 169, No. 273, vol. 66).
"AUTUMN LANDSCAPE." BY INAGAKI-
RAMPO
79
MM
"SUNSET ON SNOW." BY MIKI-
BUNKWA
strength and quality of the brushwork. Mere
technicality is by no means the life of old art,
but there is something precious in the old
artistic ideal of depicting an object with the
fewest possible strokes of the brush, stress being
laid not so much on the physical form as on the
spirit of the thing painted. It has aimed to
express the texture, colour, form, and life of an
object with a single brush-stroke. It empha-
sizes an idealistic quality in art. Whatever
style be chosen, the picture has to possess
" noble simplicity " and kihin, or dignity, which,
according to painters of the old school, depends
much upon the brushwork, and no less upon
the spirit with which it is painted.
One of the best pictures by contemporary
artists at this exhibition was the landscape by
Osaka-Shiden reproduced on p. 81. Shiden has
shown, by his works of similar nature, a sympa-
thetic understanding of landscape of this
character. There is no strain in the composi-
tion : things are presented in their natural
order with a technique well suited to reveal
the delicate charm of nature in tranquillity.
Another noteworthy painting, also reproduced
here, was the Summer Landscape by Dan-
Ranshyu. This artist has a wonderful power
of depicting mist and clouds, especially the
mysterious beauty of sunshine seen through a
thin veil of mist or cloud. Such a quality was
well shown in his Moving Clouds, shown at the
Panama-Pacific Exposition at San Francisco in
1915, and already reproduced in these pages
{see The Studio, p. 169, No. 273, vol. 66).
"AUTUMN LANDSCAPE." BY INAGAKI-
RAMPO
79