Identifier: historyofar02faur (find matches)
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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School of Matahei (xvii Century). Painting. (Louvre.) 130 MEDIEVAL ART Stylization has never been an obstacle to the Japa-nese artist. On the contrary, it permits him to placehis science at the service of a fantasy that knows nolimits. It authorizes him to turn into geometrical
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A monk. Sculpture in wood (xvii Century). (Louvre.) forms the whole of nature, transposed and recom-posed—beasts of silver, pewter, or gold; plants of redor black lacquer; gilded flowers, blue flowers, greenflowers; leaves—red or blue or black; nights anddays and suns that no longer retain anything of theiroriginal colors. But the rigorous logic which bringsabout order among the sensations out of which the JAPAN 131 forms came little by little clothes them in another kindof reality, distant, crystallized, and magnificent. Theirlife exists through their relationships, the object is ofno importance save with respect to the one next to it,and the higher type of truth is never in a fact, but inthe way of understanding it and of uniting it with theother facts. The miracle of this well-formed and precise languageis that it allows the painters of the islands to retain apersonality as clear-cut, as imperious, and as living asthat of any artists of the Occident; the miracle is, too,that th

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