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| "A tea house at Kamakura" by Alfred Parsons, R A |
... The
lotus is one of the most difficult plants which it has ever been my lot to try
and paint; the flowers are at their best only in the early morning, and each
blossom after it has opened closes again before noon the first day, and on its
second day the petals drop. The leaves
are so large and so full of modeling that it is impossible to generalize them
as a mass; each one has to be carefully studied, and every breath of wind
disturbs their delicate balance, and completely alters their forms. Besides this, their glaucous surface, like
that of a cabbage leaf, reflects every passing phase of the sky, and is
constantly changing in colour as clouds pass over ….
Alfred
Parsons (1847-1920)
