Word: umehara
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...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 before. Occasionally one picks up some shadows and echoes of cubism -- a broken plane here, a little faceting or transparency there...
...prayerful band started its cursing crusade only after "nights of soul-searching" convinced its members that Japan's notoriously lax antipollution laws needed divine guidance. At first, the group was apprehensive. "I felt like an idiot, an impossible Buddhist Quixote in this age of technology," recalls Masaki Umehara. The public felt differently. To many Japanese, the picture of a solitary band of Buddhists silhouetted against smoke-belching factories suggested latter-day samurai...
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