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...gifted of the eight artists is the painter Hugh O'Donnell. His large, crammed canvases owe something to Frank Stella in their controlled decorative fullness. They also allude to Japanese Momoyama screens, and that is no accident since O'Donnell studied them while on a fellowship to Kyoto in the mid-'70s. The desire to activate every part of the surface with emphatic silhouetted forms, stopping just short of congestion, is the animating principle of O'Donnell's work: he is a trader in visual surprises who can set his big, fractured geometrical forms...
Edward Esko Kyoto, Japan...
...rarity in Japan's political circles -and for a time preached the gospel on street corners. After graduating from Tokyo University of Commerce in 1936 with an economics degree, he managed to get a job in the Finance Ministry, which traditionally recruited only from the elite Tokyo and Kyoto universities...
This color coding has not worked, since it is easy for a bandit with artistic bent to repaint his model gun to give it a menacing steel blue glower. Typical was the incident last July when a real robber brandishing a fake black Colt .38 held up a real Kyoto bank van carrying checks worth 50 million in real yen. That was the equivalent of 263,158 real dollars, which are fake nowadays in Japan anyway...
...scenes, so dozens of Japanese artists began to set down the details of street festivals and bathhouses on the largest "official" scale known to Japanese art -the byōbu, or folding screens, closely detailed and richly ornamented with gold leaf, which decorated the houses of the rich in Kyoto and Edo. These genre pictures give the most complete visual account of everyday life in old Japan that has come down to us, and a delightful selection of them (drawn from the Suntory Museum of Art in Tokyo) is on view at New York's Japan Society through July...