{"id":124,"date":"2021-10-30T00:18:36","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T00:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/ananyaeriyat\/?p=124"},"modified":"2021-10-30T00:19:20","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T00:19:20","slug":"katsushika-hokusai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/ananyaeriyat\/2021\/10\/30\/katsushika-hokusai\/","title":{"rendered":"Katsushika Hokusai"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I decided to write about Hokusai and his Mount Fuji paintings because I was amazed by how one individual, in their late seventies, was able to create 36 different perspectives of Mt. Fuji. I have seen Mount Fuji in person and was awestruck by its enormity; until this year did, I learn that Hokusai, painted this massive mountain, not once but 36 times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Self-portrait as fisherman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Great wave of Kanagawa <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Katsushika Hokusai was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter, and printmaker during the Edo period. Hokusai is best known for the “36 Views of Mount Fuji” woodblock print series, which includes the worldwide iconic painting “The Great Wave of Kanagawa.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each print design features the sacred Mount Fuji, either prominently or as a little element in the backdrop. The series is a 19th-century Japanese woodblock printing classic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following are some of the Mt.Fuji prints that particularly stood out to me:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Red Fuji (1603-1868)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I adore how subtle colour are contrasting with each other and minimalistic strokes somehow manage to create such depth in this print.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 Mt.Fuji – Shimo Meguro ( 1603-1868)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Unlike the earlier print I found it interesting as to how Mt.Fuji in the drawing is just an subtle shape in the backdrop of this busy print. But yet somehow the viewer tends to focus on the mountain in the distance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hokusai inspired Impressionism, with themes echoed in the work of Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, as well as art nouveau. Many European artists, including Degas, Gauguin, Klimt, Manet, and van Gogh, acquired his woodcuts. Degas had this to say about him: “In the Floating World, Hokusai is more than just another artist. He is an island, a continent, and a whole globe in his own right.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Works cited:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Factual information: https:\/\/www.katsushikahokusai.org\/biography.html<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Image sources: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.katsushikahokusai.org\/the-complete-works.html?pageno=8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.artic.edu\/artworks\/81212\/self-portrait-as-a-fisherman<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.artelino.com\/articles\/hokusai-36-views-fuji.asp<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I decided to write about Hokusai and his Mount Fuji paintings because I was amazed by how one individual, in their late seventies, was able to create 36 different perspectives of Mt. Fuji. I have seen Mount Fuji in person and was awestruck by its enormity; until this year did, I learn that Hokusai, painted … Continue reading “Katsushika Hokusai”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[44,46],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2","tag-hokusai","tag-mount-fuji"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/ananyaeriyat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/ananyaeriyat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/ananyaeriyat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/ananyaeriyat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/ananyaeriyat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/ananyaeriyat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/ananyaeriyat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/ananyaeriyat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/ananyaeriyat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/ananyaeriyat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}