Word: hokusai
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...Japanese connoisseur who saw the Army's exhibit last week would be quick to point out that Jacoulet is more of a craftsman than a draftsman. Compared with Utamaro and Hokusai, the old masters of print-making's great period (1600-1867), Jacoulet's designs have a long way to go. But he is reviving interest in a vanishing art, and for that, all Japanese patrons of prints could be grateful...
...persuaded his publishers to bind together three full-size collections and sell them for the price of a popular novel, and his innovation is a praiseworthy step towards bringing more poetry to a larger audience. The three parts are "This I Know," a reaction to a world at war, "Hokusai Saw," an attempt to translate the atmosphere of Hokusai's Japanese prints into poetry, and "The Maples Are Red," an impressionistic chronicle of the author's childhood. "The Maples Are Red" is probably the best of the three. In his introduction Inman damns the "symbolic language" of the modern "esoteric...
...Hokusai Saw," on the other hand, is for me at least, a complete failure. Instead of a real transmutation of the feeling of the paintings to the feeling of the poems, what we have is static verse, bulging with adjectives. The poems seem to add nothing and to lose a great deal...
...representative group of primitives, some very fine examples by Harunobu, and is unusually strong in actor prints by such masters as Shunsho, Buncho, and Shungei. There are also about a dozen portraits by Shiriau, as well as a large group of Surimono, (small prints for special occasions) by Hokusai, Hiroshige, Toyokuni, Utamaro, and others...
...Philadelphia, a show opened last week, at the Print Club. It was an exhibit, by Mrs. Charles L. Brown, of prints of cats, made during the last 400 years. They were from all quarters of the world, and from such masters as Rembrandt, Dürer and Hokusai down through the illustrators of Godey's Lady's Book to present artists of varying fame...