DOI issue:
No. 316 (July 1919)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21358#0099
STUDIO-TALK
"A BACK GARDEN”
(PAIR OF SCREENS)
BY HIROSE-TOHO
widely treated. On the whole, the paint-
ings of this class were highly realistic in
treatment, though decorative in effect.
Brilliant was Ishizaki-Koyo's highly deco-
rative Rivalry of Spring in a Tropical
Country, a well-balanced composition with
a profusion of bright colours. Ikegami-
Shuho’s Flowers and Birds of the Four
Seasons eloquently showed the artist’s
unusual facility with the brush. Highly
decorative also was Hirose-Toho’s screen
painting, A Back Garden. The tendency
to use strong vivid colours in the treatment
of kacho subjects seems to be growing, a
Amid this display of gay colours there
were some black monochrome drawings
in the nanga style of the southern school
of painting, as if the spirit of old Japan
were crying out against the wild tendencies
of modern times. This nanga style was
started by men of letters who, without
training in the pictorial art, drew to satisfy
their whims, to illustrate or supplement
their poems. They used black ink, some-
times with a little colour added, and gene-
rally a poem or sentence appeared at one
corner of the picture. The essence of
this kind of picture was the nobility of
feeling it expressed, without which a nanga
is lifeless. This artless art, so to speak,
was finally developed into a style of paint-
ing, and a large number of artists now
adopt this style, which had a fair represen-
tation at the exhibition. 0 a a
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"A BACK GARDEN”
(PAIR OF SCREENS)
BY HIROSE-TOHO
widely treated. On the whole, the paint-
ings of this class were highly realistic in
treatment, though decorative in effect.
Brilliant was Ishizaki-Koyo's highly deco-
rative Rivalry of Spring in a Tropical
Country, a well-balanced composition with
a profusion of bright colours. Ikegami-
Shuho’s Flowers and Birds of the Four
Seasons eloquently showed the artist’s
unusual facility with the brush. Highly
decorative also was Hirose-Toho’s screen
painting, A Back Garden. The tendency
to use strong vivid colours in the treatment
of kacho subjects seems to be growing, a
Amid this display of gay colours there
were some black monochrome drawings
in the nanga style of the southern school
of painting, as if the spirit of old Japan
were crying out against the wild tendencies
of modern times. This nanga style was
started by men of letters who, without
training in the pictorial art, drew to satisfy
their whims, to illustrate or supplement
their poems. They used black ink, some-
times with a little colour added, and gene-
rally a poem or sentence appeared at one
corner of the picture. The essence of
this kind of picture was the nobility of
feeling it expressed, without which a nanga
is lifeless. This artless art, so to speak,
was finally developed into a style of paint-
ing, and a large number of artists now
adopt this style, which had a fair represen-
tation at the exhibition. 0 a a
83