Studio: international art (81.1921)

STUDIO-TALK

BURNING INCENSE ON
A CALM NIGHT." BY
NAKAMUEA DAISABURO

not a few paintings of questionable merit ages as an ornament on the tokonoma, a re-

from the aesthetic standpoint. A stranger cess in the guest room, where the size and

must have been puzzled to understand material, as well as subjects, have been

what it all meant, and wondered what the very much under limitation. Now the

future of painting in Nippon was going prevalence of foreign architecture has

to be. It is, indeed, in a chaotic confusion necessitated a change, and the new re-

that the pictorial art of Nippon finds itself quirements are not satisfied with the ways

in its efforts to discover, or create, a new of the old. There is a sort of contention

path for the future, a a a 0 between woodcarvers of the old school

The sculpture section, too, was con- and sculptors of the new. Among the

fronted by problems somewhat similar best works shown may be mentioned

to those troubling the section of Nippon Asakura-Fumio's The Cheek ; Yamazaki-

painting. Sculpture here has remained for Choun's A Zen Monk, in wood ; Nakatani-

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