Hartmann, Sadakichi, 1867-1944 · Boston : L. C. Page & co. · leaf 66
all theapparent flatnesSj._the_wan;t. of _strangeeffects of light and shade, and the intenseindividuality of expression, and yet thedrawing, precise as it is, is neither anatom-ically nor proportionately correct. Thisseems tFe^niore^aStomshing to us as theJapanese men and women are by no meansshy… … • ■■«^: THE FEUDAL PERIOD 49 ever,.-.destined to rot and waste away.This, in connection with canons as rigidand indisputable as those of the ancientGreeks, which exactly told the painterhow to paint, may explain much of thismannerism in the eccentric drawing ofdrapery, or - the- -features of the…
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