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Title: History of art
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Faure, Elie, 1873-1937 Pach, Walter, 1883-1958
Subjects: Art
Publisher: New York and London : Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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efreshness of flowers in the fire of his ovens, dipped intoKorins creations as at a natural spring. ... As a dec-orator, he inspired generations of workmen who, ahundred years after his death, still came to ask himfor motifs, for counsel, technic, and methods of sty-lization. When he let the India ink or the thick blackvarnish flow from the point of his brush, when hepolished his lacquers of opaque gold with powderedcharcoal, it was as if the whole ancient soul and thewhole present-day soul of Japan were suspended withinhis soul to guide his hand. He had the power to seize,in the life that passes, the imperceptible instant thatattaches it to eternal life. A few sparrows on thesnow, a line of turtles, or a tuft of reeds sufficed him asa subject; a stroke, a shadow from his brush, and the Beginning of the eighteenth century. JAPAN 149 absolute flows through his work. He seemed suddenlyto abandon his color and his form when he had barelysketched them in, as if warned by a prophetic flash
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Harunobu (1718-70). Young women at their toilet, print.(H. Vever Collection.) that he should go no farther. A leaf of his album tookon the grandeur of a fresco. Before transposing the reptiles and the birds and the 150 MEDIAEVAL ART fishes and the Httle mammals and the aquatic grassesinto his profound gamut of greens, blacks, reds, andthe golds of his lacquers, he had so zealously pene-trated the meaning of their animation that it seemed asif that animation was what caused the glistening ma-terial to swell. The rolling trot of the mice, the flabbyappearance of the toads, the silent flights in the sky, andthe undulation of seaweed at the waters edge passedunder the glazed skin of his pieces. His heart beatat having understood the enormous force of life thatis hidden under the grass we tread on, in the depths ofthe dark springs in which our gaze is lost, and underthe broad leaves which spread themselves out and casta green shadow. Gold on gold, gold on red, gold onblack, red on red, bla

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