Hokusai Essays

Katsushika Hokusai is an artist born on roughly October 31, 1760 and died on May 10, 1849. His father an artist who focused on creating art around the outside of mirrors is said to be his influence when he starts painting around the age of six. At the age of twelve his father sent him to work at a book shop and during these times the books were on wooden blocks and used to entertain the upper and middle class. He became an apprentice to a wood carver and continued to work there till eighteen and

These two paintings by Katsushika Hokusai, a Japanese artist from the Edo period, are both from his One Hundred Ghost Series. Both pieces are woodcut paintings completed around 1831 (“Hokusai”). The Ghost of Kohada Koheiji depicts the skeleton of Kohada Koheiji, an aspiring actor who was murdered at the command of his ex-wife and her new lover (“Hokusai”). In this woodcut painting, he is vengefully peering into a mosquito net. In the popular story, the ex-wife and her new lover were haunted so miserably

Beginning in the 1960’s, we see an influx of new graphic styles, art directed at integrating ‘pop’ culture or mass media. In the U.S. or Europe, it may be common for an artist to use this medium for their own expression, or perhaps if a graphic artist is hired to complete work for an advertisement, product, or an event; however, hardly do these two mentalities intertwine. Tadanori Yokoo has found that this is not the case for him. His vibrant expression of concepts, colors, and motifs have gathered

Waves could be the symbol of Chelmsford. The wave of time with the city’s an old and rich history started long before our age, during the Neolithic and Bronze Age period, continued during the roman period, disappeared a time for reborn from its ashes and develop until today. Afterward, the wave of people who commute every day to Chelmsford. Finally, the more literal wave of the water which surrounds the site. Let this wave takes you away and let them tell you the story of Wavescape. From the city

The Great Wave of Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai was published in his book Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji during the Tokugawa period (c. 1823-39). This full-color woodblock print was composed of a limited color palette of browns, greys, and vivid blues and depicts a giant wave that appears as though it is just about to crash down on one of two long boats, which do not appear to have a chance of navigating this tumultuous sea. The sky appears dark and stormy and in the distance a snow peaked mountain

Ukiyo-e paintings, also known as pictures of the floating world, were not merely decorative objects, but played a very important role in communicating fashions, customs, theatre and culture in general. They were served as a form of advertisement, like the illustrations on today’s magazines. Their creations was a fairly important and demanding affair, not merely an artist’s personal endeavor, but a complex undertaking involving many different people at different levels. In this paper I will argue

The High and Low of The Wave When you think an experiment goes well and it goes too far. The Wave was made by Todd Strasser the book is based on a event that happens in 1969. The book was based on the Nazi’s the Halocaust set in Gordan High School in Palo Alto, California. The Wave has positive and negative effects about it. The positives are teamwork and equality. The negatives are violences against non-members and peer pressure to people who don’t want to join. The first

most art. This type of art you have to have patience. Some of the famous artists ,Katsushika Hokusai, he was one of the most famous wood block printers there was. He was highly talented if you look at his work its very nice art work. Katsushika Hokusai his birth date was Oct,31,1760 and he died on May,10,1849 he was 88 years old. Katsushika Hokusai started panting at the age of 6 years old. Hokusai had over 30 different names throughout his life time. At the age of 12 his father sent him to work

Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) was one of the great masters of the Japanese woodblock prints. Before his time the woodblock prints were mostly depicting actors and beautiful women. Hokusai was born in Japan to an artisan family with the name Tokitarō. His father, Nakajima Ise, never accepted him as an heir which suggests that he may have been born to a concubine. Hokusai was interested in drawing at a young age but he was sent to work at a library from around age 12 to 14. When he was 15 he was apprenticed

and the poetry interpretation of the painting titled “The Great wave”, when analyzed separately and then together, help the viewer to visualize the turmoil and strife that the painter is going through in his life. “The Great Wave” by Katsushilza Hokusai is an extremely famous painting that has been around since the 1800’s.

art. The biggest response she wanted to get was that of antagonism, she stated that she wanted to start trouble. She wanted to be on the edge, original and that meant going against the norm. For her paintings which I sketched one of them called “Hokusai”. She used double square shaped canvises and often she put deep spaces, two squares, and empty spaces to make the wall part of the

Katsushika Hokusai was a Japanese artist specializing in ukiyo-e painting and printing. Ukiyo-e is a form of Japanese art which was popular in the 17th through 19th century. In English, ukiyo-e translates to “pictures of the floating world.” It is a wide range of paintings and woodblock prints such as faces, landscapes, flowers, and even erotica. Hokusai’s most famous painting is the Great Wave. The Great Wave off Kanagawa is part of a woodblock print series he did called the Thirty Six Views of

1829-1832, the woodblock print was part of the Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series which featured ravishing sceneries of Mount Fuji. Being the first print in the series, The Great Wave was a phenomenal success. Before the emergence of Katsushika Hokusai, woodblock printing technique has been around for centuries and used mainly for printing of texts. One of the printing styles, Ukiyo-e, was used by Japanese printmakers in the Edo period. The subjects revolved around popular culture such as Kabuki

through China. Western style prints soon arrived in Japan through the Dutch trade. Blue pigment called Prussian Blue was imported and used to create this master piece. The wave inspired the Western and World art artists like Van Gogh and Manet. Hokusai also inspired the impressionist movement. Examples of Hokusai’s influence in Van Gogh’s art include but is not limited to: Starry Night and The Courtesan with the vibrant blue color as a unifying theme in the works of Van

Any work of art is viewed and created through a lens crafted by the viewer’s society. While this certainly applies to portraits, histories and other depictions of daily life, this still holds true for landscape. How the landscape is represented in a work of art is dependent on the cultural constructs of the artist, or the viewers, society. Different cultures view and create landscapes very differently. For example, European Romantic artwork is extremely different in its depictions of landscape from

Visual storytelling comes with many different media suchs as films, theatre and animation. All of them have one thing in common, which is telling a story through visuals, showing the audience what we want to tell. Even a photograph can tell a story. In visual storytelling there are many elements that brings it to life, for instance the characters. Great characters can carry the whole story as we are seeing it unfold through them. Other elements includes: sound, editing, cinematography, composition

subjects as female beauties; scenes from history and folk tales; travel scenes and landscapes; flora and fauna; and erotica. Beginning in the 19th century, woodblock prints of famous sites in japan, such as Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai (1760 - 1849), came into fashion. (p. 230) One of the paint, named “Near Umezawa in Sagami Province,” is one of his great artwork and a representative Ukiyo-e In late Edo period (1780 - 1867),

clothing surrounded by fans. Whether this painting could be considered his celebration of Asian art or, on the contrary, a mocking image of Paris, obsession with Japanese art at that time, remains a question of debate. Monet was an avid admirer of Hokusai and had many of his prints in his possession. There is even a speculation that Hokusai’s focus on flowers may have inspired Monet to use water lilies as a model for

paper from the Northern Song (960–1127) or Jin (1115–1234) dynasty in China. The work, Sekiya Village on the Sumida River (Sumidagawa Sekiya no sato), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei), was painted by Katsushika Hokusai, which is also on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It made of ink and color on paper and made in 1930-32 in Japan. Comparing these two works of art, they have different historical and cultural backgrounds, but the high speed of movement

As the woodblock focuses on the ‘yudachi’, this element had caught my attention the msot. Therefore I believe that the ‘yudachi; is the most important factor of this piece. However, I actually saw the people on the birdge first, then the rain. Next would be the scenery (sky and ocean), and within the scenrey, I noticed the tiny person on the raft. Though, one might consider the bridge as the subject, this woodblock used most of its space for the scenery, which encompassess the ‘yudachi’. The yudachi