Kyōsai’s Treatise on Painting (Kyōsai gadan) : [volume 2]
Kyōsai's Treatise on Painting, volume 2, is a Japanese instructional manual of painting models made by Kawanabe Gyōsai in 1887 for students and artists. Its double-page spreads show studies of women's faces and hairstyles, a crowd of figures, a mounted warrior in a landscape, and spirits and ghosts, drawn in loose black ink with a few light colour washes; a designer could take from them economical contour line, varied expressions, and figures placed against open ground.
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