Three essays on Oriental painting
A 1910 London study by Sei-ichi Taki, published by B. Quaritch, surveying Japanese and Chinese painting for readers interested in Oriental art history. Its plates reproduce ink and tonal paintings: a dense hatched grid of dark forms, a crowd of figures tumbling around a cart, and a misty river landscape with a sailing boat beneath cliffs. A designer might take the loose ink wash energy, the sparse negative space of the boat scene, and the chaotic crowd composition.
