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Gardner finds Searchlight (see color) "particularly Japanese in its refined monochrome patterns." After the Hurricane also has one Japanese quality-its rendition of energy through design. The stunned stillness, the animal defeat in Homer's watercolor might seem diametrically opposed to Ogata Korin's lively imaginings (see above); yet the two men would have understood each other. Both spoke in terms of powerfully simple compositions...
...Ogata Korin made something of a picnic out of life, but he left great art to posterity. To celebrate the 300th anniversary of his birth. Tokyo's Shirokiya department store has put on exhibition 120 of the Japanese master's pictures in the greatest Korin show ever assembled...
...questions," he answered a query on the correct Allied policy after Versailles. "I am a writer of novels, essays and so on, and painting and drawing is my trade. I am far more interested in the Central American art being shown at present in the Fogg Museum, or in Korin's screen in the Boston Museum, than I am in anything political...
...Fogg Art Museum is holding from November 5 to November 30 in the Northwest wing a lean exhibition of reproductions of Japanese prints and bronzes. The subject matter is mainly taken from nature; animals, plants, and birds. Two seventeenth century artists, Korin and Shokado, are particularly well represented. Some prints of Ryskist a modern, afford an interesting comparison between the old and the modern style...
...caught his laugh. It is too much like translating Heine. This exhibition contains no less than seven examples in pottery and one painting ascribed to Kenzan; all are remarkably like the master's work, some of them are almost certainly by him. Koyetsu, less known abroad than his pupil Korin, is represented if only in delightful reproduction by a huge black pottery raven leaning forward to caw and by a single painting, more important, perhaps, than anything else in the three rooms. This is a tiny square of paper on which, in blue and gold, is a wave overlaid...