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He paints as if from above the lion seems to slide downward and forward. In ''Waiting'' the artist uses a perspective novel to the West although quite customary to Japanese traditionalists. The backgrounds, usually variegated but seldom specific, give to the figure the intensity of a splendid apparition, seen by a light casting no shadow in a strange solitude. The colors are applied in washes or in opaque patterns on special Japanese paper thus the paintings are as fragile as they are precious.ĭelicate, soft strokes produce images of such tactile evocativeness that we want to touch the surfaces. His pictures are meant neither to attract the eye too much nor overly distract the mind but rather to incite the imagination. Discreetly suggested are quiverings of life, reminiscences of legends, and always poetry. Realism and a fine decorative sense alternate, in turn opposing or mingling.

An exquisite Oriental sensitivity adds subtle nuances to a remarkably sharp attentive observation. Yamaguchi creates art whose simplicity is only apparent. Lineal descendant of the talented genre painters of that fabulous city, Yamaguchi continues their techniques in the difficult art of painting animals, birds, and flowers, while embracing something new, a beautiful expression of Japanese civilization. While there is in Japan a powerful current of modern art, traditional painting with its exotic overtones is still very much alive, especially in the studio of the master Yamaguchi Kayo at Kyoto.

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