alisonbooth-fad:Hokusai Katsushika Hokusai, born in 1760 into an artisan family worked as an appre
alisonbooth-fad: Hokusai Katsushika Hokusai, born in 1760 into an artisan family worked as an apprentice to a woodblock engraver at a young age. From the age of 19 he had been taken on as a pupil by ukiyoe master Katsukawa Shunsho. Ukiyoe, meaning pictures of the floating world, is a genre of prints and paintings that depicted beautiful women, kabuki actors, sumo wrestlers, scenes from history, folk tales and landscapes. In print form the creation was divided between people, the artist came up with the design, the carver cut the woodblocks, the printer inked and pressed the woodblocks onto handmade paper and the publisher financed, promoted and distributed the works. This genre of Japanese art was central in forming the west’s perception of Japanese art Hokusai was influenced by the artist Sesshu and other forms of Chinese painting and after being exposed to Western art at an early age due to his thirst for knowledge he picked up non-Japanese artistic techniques such as one point perspective which led Hokusai to turn his hand to a new form of ukiyoe. After being kicked out for experimenting with different art forms Hokusai began to create more brush paintings. Well known for his series 36 images of Mt Fuji he also put together books better known as manga which modern day manga is believed to have been influenced by. Hokusai’s work has mainly been an influence in his use of blue, or rather the positioning and proportion of it, I found it helpful to think of the rose petals as waves and have the blue centre and white radiating out it was almost as though they were ripples in water and not part of a rose once I thought of them differently. I like the way in which he also uses the waves not just as waves in these particular images but they have a secondary use, as claws reaching out to the boats, threatening to catch up to and capsize them. The mix of lines and absence of lines in areas creates a contrast I find that works from the blank skies to the busy waves that stretch with claws. -- source link
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