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Show JAPANESE PAINTERS. The llruat.es They II . and the BUaaed ..f Tle.lr I'M, The Jnpaiicxo artist has made a most careful study of how to convey truths in tho most pleasurablo way; how toi make bis lines most beautiful, as though a speaker would use but word! of most exqulslto sound. To do tbil he has cultivated his "touch" until I la but mockery to compare It with that of hla Kuropean brother. Ha hit learned to hamllo his brush with n directness and precision which la Ji thing of womle-r, and he haa stuillrl with a pallenco beyond compare p possibilities of each particular klmlif brush. Ilo knows, for Instance, tpt one kind of brush may bo used to Impress Im-press a bamboo atem and that vt-other vt-other bruili will be less enicaclousjlls knows how to fill each particular krt of that brush with a certain amonnf color or wnter, so that a alnglo moV ment of the hand ovor tho paper vrl pnlnt the stem, Ha light and ahnnj Ita peculiar charaeterlstlca, comple. And to the perfecting of thnt situs movement of hla hand over the p-per p-per ho and his ancestora have glva years of study. Listen to a description by a Japn-eao. Japn-eao. Ilo la not an urtlst himself, bl Is explaining how artlsta use a cortal brush: "The brush with color la passed ove a pleco of paper with a heavy atrok that spreads tho bristles of tho brush nt tho same time bending thorn at the tip. The brush la then turned ao that tho bristles curve toward the. artist, and a light stroke will produce the halr-IUte lines. This la one of tin ways of painting tho hair or fur of animals." |