Chronology Entry
Year
1957
Text
Mark Tobey experimented briefly with pure calligraphic ink gestures.
Er schreibt [Datum unbekannt] :
"Some critics have criticized me for being what they called an Orientalist and for using Oriental models for my work. But they were wrong. Because when I was struggling in Japan and China with Sumi-ink and the brush, trying to understand the calligraphy of the Far-East, I became aware that I would never be anything other than the Westerner that I am. But what did develop there was what I call the calligraphic impulse that has opened out new horizons for my work. Now I could paint the turmoil and tumult of the great cities, the intertwining of the lights and the streams of people caught up in the mesh of their net."
Er schreibt [Datum unbekannt] :
"Some critics have criticized me for being what they called an Orientalist and for using Oriental models for my work. But they were wrong. Because when I was struggling in Japan and China with Sumi-ink and the brush, trying to understand the calligraphy of the Far-East, I became aware that I would never be anything other than the Westerner that I am. But what did develop there was what I call the calligraphic impulse that has opened out new horizons for my work. Now I could paint the turmoil and tumult of the great cities, the intertwining of the lights and the streams of people caught up in the mesh of their net."
Mentioned People (1)
Tobey, Mark
(Centerville, Wisc. 1890-1976 Basel) : Maler
Subjects
Art : Painting and Calligraphy
Documents (1)
| # | Year | Bibliographical Data | Type / Abbreviation | Linked Data |
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| 1 | 1973 |
Sullivan, Michael. The meeting of Eastern and Western art from the sixteenth century to the present day. (London : Thames and Hudson, 1973). [Rev. and expanded ed. (Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 1989)]. https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_PMFwC1gP0BkC. [Enthält] : Some important dates in Far Eastern history since 1500. Japan: the first phase, c.1550-1850. China and European art, 1600-1800. Europe and Chinese art, 1600-1800. Japan: from the Meiji restoration of 1869 to the present day. The revolution in Chinese art. Europe and America: from 1850 to the present day. Some reflections on the East-West dialogue. S. 265-266. |
Publication / Sul6 |
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