In June 11th, I went to the Museum of Shimane at Matsue with the member of C-Artis. I saw Eikyu Matsuoka’s gallery as a special display and other permanent display. Eikyu Matsuoka’s made a lot of Yamato-e works. Yamato-e is Japanese old painting style. They were painted by China ink or coloring of rock. Their color is paler and lighter than European works. In addition, some Yamato-e works have a blank space. European works don’t have that space. It is big difference between Orient and Europe.
I like European deep and dark coloring paints. It’s so cool and powerful. When I went to Museum of Louvre, I saw many works of European style. I feel their power directly. In this case that I saw Yamato-e at Matsue, I don’t feel powerful energy from Yamato-e. However, I felt more beauty and thoughtful than European works. Moreover they felt me wabi-sabi as a Japanese soul.
I like both style, Japanese and European. I only draw cartoon style picture because I had never learn specialty drawing or painting style. I learned how to drawing is always self-education. I want to draw a work like a Japanese style and display at Kai-yu-sai.

This looks like an interesting museum. Maybe I will stop in there next time I am up in that area.
返信削除By the way, when did you go to the Louvre? Did you go to the Musée Rodin as well?