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...general the Japanese in Paris were conservative in their taste, preferring as models Renoir and Monet to Picasso. Some of the high points of this show are conservative in the best sense, such as Kishida Ryusei's superrefined Still Life (Three Red Apples, Cup, Can, Spoon), 1920, in which the Japanese passion for wabi -- unfussed, natural simplicity -- finds its way into a still-life scheme inherited from Andre Derain. When Umehara Ryuzaburo went to extremes in 1938 with Nude with Fans, the limbs drawn in thick dissonant red and green lines, his prototype was Matisse's work of 30 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Japanese with A French Accent | 1/25/1988 | See Source »

...live alone in a huge hole in the sand by the seashore? Weekly, they lower her enough water and rations to survive in her ramshackle hut. When a young school teacher-amateur entomologist (bugs) happens along, they let him (Eiji Okada) down the rope ladder for her (Kyoko Kishida...

Author: By Paul Williams, | Title: Woman in the Dunes | 1/6/1965 | See Source »

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