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Modern Art Painter: HASHIGUCHI, ha-she-goo-che, Goyo (1881-1921), Japanese painter and wood-block print designer, who applied the techniques of the Ukiyo-e masters to modern art painter prints. Born in Kagoshima, he studied painting at the Tokyo Fine Arts Academy, graduating in 1905.
Hashiguchi first made his reputation as an oil painter, and he was also a successful graphic artist. He gradually became more interested in traditional Japanese painting. About 1915 he began to make the first of his wood-block prints in which, combining Hiroshige's style with modern subject matter, he achieved a feeling strongly reminiscent of Ukiyo-e.
In 1969, by appointment of President Nixon, Romney became secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
ROMNEY, rom'ne, George, English painter: b. Beckside, near Dalton-in-Furness, Lancashire, Eng., Dec. IS, 1734; d. Kendal, Eng., Nov. 15, 1802. His father was a cabinetmaker, and the boy learned this trade, but he also taught himself drawing and woodcarving and at 19 was apprenticed to a portrait painter at Kendal named Steele. In 1757 he entered a career as portrait painter, and after local success went to London (1762), leaving his wife (whom he married in 1756) and his two children in Kendal.
GRECO, gra'ko, El (1541-1614), Spanish painter, who became one of the most important artists of Spain and the great interpreter and formulator of the fervor of the Spanish Counter-Reformation. No painter before or after him evolved a style better suited to the expression of the mysteries of the Catholic faith. |
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