History of art . te paper with those summary black dabs of Indiaink which give us for the first time the effect of thingsseen in a mirror dimmed by having lain in water. We see cranes in a sky,ducks in a pond, orthe strong lines of alandscape, misty,chaotic, and discovered init fantastic appari-tions, dramas of theair and of the lakes—^wandering barks,birds at dawn halffrozen on thebranches, and treeslost in the fog; byhis powerful abbre-viations he an-n ou need seemed tolive with the beastsand to share with in-difference their im-placable violent life o
History of art . te paper with those summary black dabs of Indiaink which give us for the first time the effect of thingsseen in a mirror dimmed by having lain in water. We see cranes in a sky,ducks in a pond, orthe strong lines of alandscape, misty,chaotic, and discovered init fantastic appari-tions, dramas of theair and of the lakes—^wandering barks,birds at dawn halffrozen on thebranches, and treeslost in the fog; byhis powerful abbre-viations he an-n ou need seemed tolive with the beastsand to share with in-difference their im-placable violent life ofthe earth enteredhim like the breathof his nostrils; he was far from men and seemed to re-member the gods no longer. In his somber splashes ofink he gathered up the central forces that issued fromthe soil of the shaggy, pine-grown hillsides, the sap thatpoured through branches, the blood that swelled inthroats and bellies, the hunger that hardened beaks,the brutal flight that ruflled plumage, the terrible sim-. Sesson (died 1495). Bird. (From The Kokka.) w 0000 o 05 o I o Ç5
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