Word: fenollosa
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...depicting forms by smearing a kind of sticky, slow-drying mud on cloth, rather than using ink and water on silk as Chinese and Japanese masters had done for millenniums. When the Tokyo School of Fine Arts opened in 1887,its American co-founder, the "Boston bonze" Ernest Fenollosa, insisted that it teach only traditional Japanese techniques. But by 1896 most of its students were petitioning to learn oil painting, and a Western department had to be set up; thereafter, it was the most popular part of the school...
...Freer exhibition is a fascinating show, for its context as well as its contents. Charles Lang Freer, who made his millions in rolling stock in the boom railroad years of the late 19th century, was an impassioned Orientalist, a disciple of the "Boston bonzes," chiefly of Ernest Fenollosa. As Bernard Berenson fanned the ardor of the American rich for the Italian Renaissance, so Fenollosa was busy shaping American taste for Oriental art. He adored Whistler's work, calling him "the nodule, the universalizer, the interpreter of East to West." Freer concurred, and in the 1890s he became Whistler...
Neal I. Koblitz '69, a mathematician at the University of Washington, donates the royalties he receives from his books to a fund he and his wife set up to aid women scientists in Vietnam. Koblitz's Harvard classmate, Michael K. Fenollosa '69, now an assistant vice-president at Boston's Shawmut Bank, writes in recent Class Record Book: "Needless to say, and I suppose, somewhat regretfully. I have become a political conservative (it seems hard to believe that I once voted for George McGovern for President.)" The two men represent two of the many different solutions to the dilemma that...
...second period opened rather tamely, but the visitors erupted after eight minutes. Serge Boily and Herb Wakabayashi scored within 30 seconds of each other, the second coming with Mike Fenollosa sitting out a Crimson...
Another Minnesotan. Tom Micheletti, has developed into the Crimson's top defenseman since he was moved back from forward last month. The other leading defensemen are Mike Fenollosa, Tony Kotnik, and Charlie Peiper, who may miss today's game with...