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The black dots of the eyes and claws further intensify this striking

but knew that its fundamental problem lay in its lack of inner dynamism: the center of a circle absorbs all energy flows

Yet calligraphy is not

This creates an upward momentum in the composition

even if the authorship would have been worth mentioning

Affe | Suzuki Kason 鈴木華邨 | 1860-1919 format:71cmx116cm The black dots of theMonkeys are more important in Asia than in Europe, perhaps simply because they are encountered in the forests in many countries; they are a reality, just as rabbits and deer are for Europeans. But they deserve special respect, of course, because of their similarity to humans. In Japan there are temples that officially include monkeys in their temple chronicles and worship them with wooden sculptures on altars and as decorations on roofs, etc. The