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Takuroh Toyama

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Hasui Kawase (川瀬巴水), Autumn Rainbow at Hatta, Kaga (Osaka), 1924.

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Romaine Brooks (American painter) 1874 - 1970 Le Trajet, 1900 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, United States of America Romaine Brooks, the daughter of a wealthy, unbalanced woman estranged from her husband before Romaine’s birth, had a miserable and unstable childhood. An insane older brother received mother’s love and attention, leaving Romaine scarred from lack of affection and acceptance. Inheritance of the huge family fortune in 1902 granted her independence, but she remained enslaved by memories of her mother’s cruelty. She studied in Rome, meeting an avant-garde group of artists, writers, and intellectuals with whom she associated in Capri, Paris, and the French Riviera. Brooks remained aloof from all artistic trends, painting, in her palette of black, white, and grays, haunting portraits of the blessed and the troubled, of socialites and intellectuals. She moved in brilliant circles and, while resisting companionship, was the object of violent passions. When she painted her own portrait, she revealed her intensely contradictory nature: extreme confidence coupled with fear of vulnerability. Her story and her work reveal much about bohemian life in the early twentieth century.

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