Word: colored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Griffes' "Clouds" invites comparison with Debussy's "Images" heard here last year. It seems to gain by the comparison; the "White Peacock" is also a beautiful bit of color work; the more one hears of Griffes the more one becomes convinced that he is the American composer--not that he is distinctively American, but that being an American, he achieves such beauties...
...divisions of the greatest period are: first, the temple art, for the decoration of sanctuaries, and second, landscape painting. From this popularization of art came the demand that resulted in the print. At first only the block outline was printed and the color was put in by hand...
...Ficke then explained the technique in the creation of the prints which date from 1680 to 1780 and illustrate the first and second periods of the art--from the black and white prints colored by hand through the use of two three color blocks. These include the work of Harunoba, who was the first to realize the possibilities of full color printing...
...Exhibition of prints lent by Mr. Ficke will remain at the Museum only about a week longer--until November 1. The prints shown are unusually fine examples of the art of color printing, that art which is "almost the only purely Japanese art and the only graphic record of popular Japanese life. Therefore it may be regarded as the most definitely national of all the forms of expression used by the Japanese--an art which they alone in the history of the world have brought to perfection...
These prints date from 1680 to 1780, and illustrate the first and second periods of the art of color printing from the black and white prints colored by hand through the use of two and three color-blocks and including the work or Harunoba, who was first to realize the possibilities of full color printing...