ashmoleanmuseum: Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai died on this day in 1849. These are three stunni
ashmoleanmuseum: Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai died on this day in 1849. These are three stunning woodblock prints from his famous Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series. Hokusai (1769-1849) was the first great designer of landscape prints. Before him, most print designers created images of beautiful women or kabuki actors. Then, in the 1820s and 1830s, Hokusai produced his Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series which showed the sacred mountain from different viewpoints, during different seasons and at different times of day. With its simple colour schemes and bold compositions it was stylistically ground-breaking, combining elements of Japanese, Chinese and Western painting. Many 19th-century European artists collected Hokusai’s prints – including Monet, Degas, Gauguin, Klimt, Manet and van Gogh – and without him Impressionism may never have happened. Top: Fuji seen from Isawa, Kai Province, at daybreak, rising out of the mists Middle: Sekiya Villages on the Sumida River Bottom: Fuji from Kanaya on the Tōkaidō Road -- source link
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