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       2023-07-07T05:17:48Z
       
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       At the end of the 19th century a number of Japanese artists experimented with gradients in painting instead of traditional line drawings. The establishment mocked this novelty and called it moro-tai 朦朧体, “vague style.” One of the experimenting artists, Shunso Hishida 菱田春草 (1874-1911), soon realised that gradients indeed were of limited use, but they worked fine for sunrises and sunsets, like here in his Twilight 暮色 from 1901. Every tool is good, if you only understand when to use it.