Word: foujita
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seventeen years ago there arrived in Paris a Japanese youth. He intended to stay one month. Not until last week did he get ready to go home. Meantime he had become a famed, much-pointed-out Parisian. "There goes Tsugoharu Foujita, the artist." His departure was such news in Paris that he felt sure his arrival in Japan would be a national event. Cockily chatting to reporters, last week, he compared the Tokyo he left with the Tokyo he would...
Every few months smart Jap Artist Foujita is a Paris sensation. Not long ago he appeared in Deauville wearing leopard skin trousers, grey suspenders, no shirt and a high silk hat. "Temperament" murmured gullibles. "Poseur!" stormed the jealous. The smart Deauvillites voted him jocularly their "best dressed...
...Japanese art circles the work of M. Foujita is considered French, mediocre. In France it is generally held to be Nipponesque, exotic, original. Foujita's women run the gamut from harlots to Madonnas, but all have catlike eyes. Asked last week about his acrobatic Parisian wife, callous...
...Foujita cried in her presence: "Oh, Yourki? She's learning how to wear a Japanese costume and how to bow. Never shall I be able to rid myself of that wife of mine there, I guess...
Sheets of paper, pasted together, pumice-stoned and glazed, so as to resemble oilcloth, was the background on which the Japanese artist Tsugouhara Foujita painted his watercolor picture, entitled En Famille, which has made a sensation at the annual Paris United Salon. It represents an artist and his French wife seated at a table littered with brushes, colors, tobacco and cigarette papers, and is said to combine harmoniously the best traditions of Japanese and Oriental...