A Glimpse At the Art of Japan
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There are two prin- cipal schools of the figure, that of Kiyoto, !„„ chief the spiritual capital of the Mikados, being ae^°ohar-^ the oldest. It is imbued, as was the early »''='''s.
Italian, with Byzantine feeling, and is impregnated with the Chinese love of repose and richness of deco- ration, tending to laborious minute conventionalism rather than to strictly artistic invention. Neverthe- less, it displays superlative delicacy and brilliancy of illumination, picturesque skill in composition,... and a felicitous balancing and tempering of masses of color and gold. It devotes itself chiefly to sacred and his- torical topics, or those favored by the aristocratic susceptibilities of the imperial family. Like the art of the miniaturists of mediaeval Europe, with which it was contemporary in origin, it formed a religious historical and romantic school partial to gold back- grounds and magnificence of decoration, chiefiy under the direction of Buddhist monks. These had ac- quired the art of clouding the page on which they Wrote with gold powder and leaf of varied tints and brilliancy, intermixing figures and text with golden masses and suggestions of forms, so as to illumine the page and give the effect of dissolving views, not un- like the softened splendor of the sun's rays in the landscape as they pass through mists.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
There are two prin- cipal schools of the figure, that of Kiyoto, !„„ chief the spiritual capital of the Mikados, being ae^°ohar-^ the oldest. It is imbued, as was the early »''='''s.
Italian, with Byzantine feeling, and is impregnated with the Chinese love of repose and richness of deco- ration, tending to laborious minute conventionalism rather than to strictly artistic invention. Neverthe- less, it displays superlative delicacy and brilliancy of illumination, picturesque skill in composition,... and a felicitous balancing and tempering of masses of color and gold. It devotes itself chiefly to sacred and his- torical topics, or those favored by the aristocratic susceptibilities of the imperial family. Like the art of the miniaturists of mediaeval Europe, with which it was contemporary in origin, it formed a religious historical and romantic school partial to gold back- grounds and magnificence of decoration, chiefiy under the direction of Buddhist monks. These had ac- quired the art of clouding the page on which they Wrote with gold powder and leaf of varied tints and brilliancy, intermixing figures and text with golden masses and suggestions of forms, so as to illumine the page and give the effect of dissolving views, not un- like the softened splendor of the sun's rays in the landscape as they pass through mists.
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