Katsushika Hokusai was born in Edo in 1970. He was the son of an artisan. Hokusai, being the best known of Japanese
artists, and having had an intense influence in western art but in particular
impressionists, he actually isn’t Japanese himself
Hokusai is one of the greatest
artists of Japanese art and I find Japanese art work incredibly interesting and
intriguing due to the intricate details that are included which is really and
truly inspiring. Hokusai is in fact the one that had inspired a whole load of
Japanese artists and even a whole generation of western artists.
In the late 18th and
early 19th century, Hokusai was Japanese artist who was well known
in the West for his paintings and woodblock prints.
The Great Wave is the best known
image of Japanese art in the Western world today, yet prints of it were sold in
the 19th century. The Great Wave is part of one of the thirty six
views of Mount Fuji.
Quote: “…of all I drew prior to
the age of seventy there is truly nothing of great note. At the age of
seventy-two I finally apprehended something of true quality...and at one
hundred I shall have become truly marvellous, and at one hundred and ten, each
dot, each line shall surely possess a life of its own. I only beg that others
of sufficiently long life take care to note the truth of my words.”
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