Claude Monet, the most famous French impressionist painter, was one of those who were so much impressed with Japanese fine art, Ukiyo-e.
Monet painted his wife, Camille, in his world famous “La Japonaise.”
Kaii Higashiyama(1908-1999) is one of the greatest painters in contemporary Japanese fine arts.
He is a typical Japanese landscapist using natural mineral pigments.
Like other Japanese landscapists, Kaii puts emphasis on silence instead of magnificence or spectacles of nature.
Buddhists, like other Oriental religions, preach that everything is born, grown, fallen and then reborn.
Kaii loves painting autumn of the year or fall of lifecycle, i.e. scenery of silence.
Fall, on the other hand, is the most delightful season harvesting wheat, apples, grapes and so on.
Delicious big apples fall from autumn trees so as to prepare for the coming reborn.
Colored leaves orchestrate in the remote forest in Kaii's paintings.