Painting in the Far East: An Introduction to the History of Pictorial Art in Asia, Especially China and Japan |
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Painting in the Far East: An Introduction to the History of Pictorial Art in ... Laurence Binyon No preview available - 1908 |
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Ajantâ Anderson Catalogue Appendix Arhats art of China Arthur Morrison Arthur Morrison Collection artists Ashikaga Asia beauty birds British Museum brush Buddha Buddhist CHAPTER character Chinese art Chinese painting Cho Densu civilisation colour colour-prints conception decorative East Emperor Europe European expression famous feeling fifteenth century figures flowers frescoes genius harmony Hokusai ideal ideas Indian inspired instinct Japan Japanese art Japanese painting K'ai-chih Kanaoka Kano Kano school Keion Khotan Kioto Kokka Korin landscape landscape art later Lung-mien master masterpieces Matabei mind Ming Mitsunaga Motonobu mountain nature Nobuzane Okio original painters period Persian pictorial art picture PLATE poet portrait prints pupil religious reproduced Rose Mallow sages scenes Select Relics sense Sesshiu Shogun Sotatsu soul spirit style subjects Sung T'ang dynasty Tajima Tanyu Taoism temple themes thought Tiger tion Toba Sojo Tokugawa Tosa Tosa school tradition Ukiyoyé Wang Wei Wu Tao-tzů Yedo Yeitoku
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Page 142 - Dis's waggon! daffodils That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath...
Page 11 - The more to concentrate on this seizure of the inherent life in what they draw, they will obliterate or ignore at will half or all of the surrounding objects with which the Western painter feels bound to fill his background. By isolation and the mere use of empty space they will give to a clump of narcissus by a rock, or a solitary quail, or a mallow plant quivering in the wind, a sense of grandeur and a hint of the infinity of life.
Page 6 - The Japanese look to China as we look to Italy and Greece : for them it is the classic land, the source from which their art has drawn not only methods, materials, and principles of design, but an endless variety of theme and motive.
Page 141 - It is midnight; all is silent in the house; The water-clock has stopped. But I am unable to sleep because of the beauty of the trembling shapes of the spring flowers, thrown by the moon upon the blind.
Page 242 - ... and anarchy which undermine our art ; and this is an effort for the public even more than for the painter. If we look back over the whole course of that great Asian tradition of painting which we have been following through the centuries, the art impresses us as a whole by its cohesion, solidarity, order, and harmony. But these qualities are not truly perceived till we know something of the life out of which it flowered. We then see that paintings which in themselves seem slight, light, and wayward...
Page 72 - He clapped his hands; the door at the cave's entrance flew open. 'The interior is beautiful beyond words,' he continued; 'permit me to show the way.' So saying, he passed within ; the gate closed after him ; and before the astonished Emperor could speak or move, all had faded to white wall before his eyes, with not a trace of the artist's brush remaining. Wu Tao-tzu was seen no more. The artist has disappeared, and the whole scene has been wiped out; but from this nothingness there arises a new spiritual...
Page 15 - ... in producing the illusion of perfect modelling. The very ease with which relief can be represented by shadows, as with us, has taken away from our painters the necessity for this concentration and weakened their sense for expressive line. The painters of the East have succeeded in giving life to their figures ; and that...
Page 18 - That is the point," returned Goethe, with a smile. "It is by this that Rubens proves himself great, and shows to the world that he, with a free spirit, stands above Nature, and treats her conformably to his high purposes.
Page 18 - The artist has a twofold relation to Nature: he is at once her master and her slave.
Page 135 - The Evening Bell from a Distant Temple Sunset Glow over a Fishing village Fine Weather after Storm at a Lonely Mountain Town Homeward-bound Boats off a Distant Shore The Autumn Moon over Lake Tung-t'ing Wild Geese on a Sandy Plain Rain in Hsiao-Hsiang146 This is one of the most curious things I ever saw, because it is so comprehensive.