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The climax of color printing was reached in the time of Hokusai, one of
Japan’s most popular artists, who lived from 1760 to 1849. His is the most prolific
and most versatile of all artists, taking for his subjects men, women, animals, in-
sects, flowers and landscape. He was most spectacular, and, to show the range of
his powers, would paint pictures on huge sheets of paper, using brooms and tubs
of ink, or paint whole scenes on grains of rice or wheat. He preferred nature in
its grander aspects, and painted every phase of landscape from the miniature garden.
to the immensity of ocean and mountain. In all Hokusai’s pictures there is a com-
bination of vigor and gentleness. He possessed a masterly technique of vigor,
imagination and delicacy often opposed by brutal ruggedness, and he paints the
architecture of nature and makes one feel its strength and structure.

Hiroshige is the lyric landscapist of Japan, and lived from 1797 to 1858.
He protrays the mood of nature, and is the master of the rain, the snow, and the
mist. Detail is subordinated, and only the salient points emphasized, but the atmos-
phere supplies what is lacking. He is a realist in nature and shows a breadth of
vision which might class him as an impressionist, and since his time no really
great artist has arisen on the horizon of Japanese color printers.

Japanese prints revolutionized the color sense of the world and influenced
many of our great modern masters. Whistler came under their direct spell, and
from the Barbizon School to the present day their influence has been felt. Color
prints are the forerunners of the poster, which has become an integral part of
modern art.

M. WItitiaMs.

In fhe “Domain of Science

Recent explorations in the mountain fastnesses of Skoolbord have revealed the
existence of a hitherto unknown tribe, the Artstudes. They are a wild, flighty
tribe, usually difficult of approach, but capable of being enticed by a few blasts on
an automobile horn.

They exist mainly on a strange food called Rheives, and they drink vast
quantities of Peint-wata. Their dress is a fantastic combination of dervish gown
and a straight-jacket. A distinguishing characteristic is their weird cry of ‘Titter-
titter,” repeated ad lib. when they are at play; their shrill cries combine with the
multi-colored flutterings of their gowns to produce an extremely bizarre effect.

All their time is taken up by the production of strangely marked and spotted
pieces of paper, which they name Wurxofart. Altogether, quite a harmless, peace-
ful tribe.

VS) GIANCE