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Pleasure in Water. Had the ancient Chinese developed their writing with quill instead of brush, it is unlikely that the immense treasure of Chinese painting would have evolved as it did. But for well over 3,000 years, painting and calligraphy developed hand in hand, raising virtuoso brushwork to such disciplined levels that generations of Chinese artists created their masterpieces "on fine silk that permitted no erasures...
What about the statement of General Curtis LeMay, boss of the Strategic Air Command, that SAC is ready to put out brush-fire wars with nuclear weapons? Replied the President: SAC can be used wherever the Defense Department sends it. But "when you get a picture of the great Strategic Air Command charging all over the world for little police troubles, of course, that would be entirely wrong...
...most key areas, the U.S. has capabilities that do not need reinforcement. The U.S. undoubtedly will have to shift some forces to correct imbalances resulting from the new British program. But those will be mostly intertheater shifts and probably will not require additional overseas troop shipments. As for brush wars of the Korea type, the U.S. long ago made its decision entirely apart from anything the British might say or do: such wars will be fought with atomic weapons and missiles...
...Books. Tessai belonged to the Nanga (Southern) or Bunjin (Literary Man) school of scholars for whom art is a secondary accomplishment. To keep their amateur standing clear, they scorned the meticulous brushwork of the professionals. Tessai, who considered his calligraphy an essential part of his art. took up his brush only when the spirit moved him. Not until the final decade of his life did he decide that he had mastered his craft...
...Patriarchs of Religions Boating Together was done in Tessai's last year. The six figures, representing key personages in Buddhist, Taoist and Confucian religious history, are symbolic of Tessai's belief in the underlying unity of Oriental religions. By his controlled use of sumi-ink splash and brush strokes, Tessai turned his white paper into a water-lily-strewn waterway and sky; at the same time his forceful brushwork created a protomodern example for much that in Western painting passes for abstract expressionism. Looking at these last works, one Japanese critic mused: "They are like flowers that bloom...