Studio: international art (71.1917)

Studio- Talk

"a shower" (pair of screens) by ikeda-terukata

well as-Tsuchida-Bakusen in his Three Dancing occasional noble' visitors. So in Preparing the

Girls. Contrary to the usual custom, Bakusen Elixir (a pair of two-panelled screens), by

has drawn these girls' faces far from beautiful. Hashimoto-Kwansetsu, the spirit of youth

He caught them at a serious moment, when radiates from the face of an aged man watch-

their minds were concentrated on the card ing a boy grinding the ingredients of life,

game they are playing. Bakusen has always Again, in Pure Beauty, by Terasaki-Kogyo, the

shown us something new and original in his beauty of nature in summer is incarnated in a

work, and in this panel he has succeeded in pure innocent girl who stands in the fuU enjoy-

expressing very cleverly the varying conditions ment of the balmy air and the freshness of the

of minds in simple intensity. Women of Muro foliage about her.
(a pair of six-panelled screens) by Matsuoka-

Eikyu was another work of a similar class. The tendency towards the expression of mood,

Shut in by a fence, four girls are idling away rather than a mere display of skill in decorative

their time. Delicate flowers in the garden treatment, has naturally made some of our

drenched in the spring rain, drawn with wonder- artists philosophically inclined. There were a

ful realism in silver lines, suggest the life and greater number of pictures than before, which

fate of the girls, who live in seclusion to wait on constrained one to ponder over them, suggesting

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