Through these meticulous, majestic works and series, we trace the variety of Hokusai’s subjects, from erotic books to historical novels, and the evolution of his vivid formalism and decisive delineation of space through color and line that would go on to liberate Western art from the constraints of its one-point perspective and unleash the modernist momentum. This TASCHEN introduction spans the length and breadth of Hokusai’s career with key pieces from his far-reaching portfolio. The series’ Under the Wave off Kanagawa, also known simply as The Great Wave, is one of the most recognized images of Japanese art in the world. 18 is the artist’s most renowned work and, with its soaring peak through different seasons and from different vantage points, marked the towering summit of the Japanese landscape print.
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Hokusai’s print series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, published between c. In addition, he created album prints, illustrations for verse anthologies and historical novels, and surimono, which were privately issued prints for special occasions. In his art, he adopted the same restlessness, covering the complete spectrum of Japanese ukiyo- e,“pictures of the floating world”, from single-sheet prints of landscapes and actors to erotic books. He changed domicile more than 90 times during his lifetime and changed his own name through over 30 pseudonyms. His influence spread through Impressionism, Art Nouveau, and beyond, enrapturing the likes of Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, and Vincent van Gogh. Hokusai (1760–1849) is not only one of the giants of Japanese art and a legend of the Edo period, but also a founding father of Western modernism, whose prolific gamut of prints, illustrations, paintings, and beyond forms one of the most comprehensive oeuvres of ukiyo-e art and a benchmark of japonisme.
National Estuaries Day is an annual observation in the US held on the last Saturday of September.Meet the artist whose majestic breaking wave sent ripples across the world. We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground. The waves in this work are sometimes mistakenly referred to as tsunami (), but they are more accurately called okinami (), great off-shore waves. Decomposing animals provide nutrients for other organisms. Although it is often used in tsunami literature, there is no reason to suspect that Hokusai intended it to be interpreted in that way.
The health of an estuary depends on a balance of these elements. Pure Evil just released 'Hokusai Tsunami', this print is to raise money for the Japanese Red Cross to be distributed amongst the affected Japanese population.
To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of year, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.Įstuary of Klamath River in Redwood National Park. Sheltered estuarine waters support thriving communities of plants and animals especially adapted for this ecosystem. Source: Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON)Įstuaries are among the most productive micro-environments on earth with more organic matter created annually than comparably-sized forests, grasslands, or cultivated land.
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