This splendid volume is the life and work of Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai woodcut of color (1760-1849) dedicated. The large-format illustrations of his works to a world that is perceived as a means Europeans like a dream world.
After a preface that the question "Why another Hokusai monograph?" answered satisfactorily, we learn that in the book the services of the artist is always considered in the wider context of the world of Japanese woodblock prints and in the context of the cultural development of his home are provided. Next will be informed that Hokusai was an artist who invented again and again, so therefore was very creative.
is partitioned the image and text-rich book in the generic terms:
Youth and Shunro period
-Hokusai Sori privately printed
-Gakyonjin and Katasushika Hokusai
-The legacy of Hokusai Raito
-IItsu: Hokusai is "Another year old "-The
Manji Period Hokusai's last years
Hokusai took over 18 years in the studio of Katsukawa Shunsho. There he worked 15 years as a painter and woodcut artist under the name Shonro. In the first chapter of Hokusai's youth and the Shunro period is examined in more detail. The essays touch on include the world of color woodblock Hokusai's early work under the sign Shunros, the woodcuts of Konkubinenschauspielerinnen, his illustrations for popular novels, the first recognition on the basis of the perspective images for Nishimuraya Yohachi and its recognition in the genres of drama pictures.
Hokusai had poetic, narrative, and humorous talent. As we learn, He wrote popular novels for years, which appeared in a characteristic yellow cover "The little yellow books" (see page 22). These books are already showing his penchant for sarcasm and good observation. Hokusai left in 1792 after the death of your master, and a fight with a classmate's studio Shunsho. He was then under the name Hokusai Sori a favorite of well-known amateur poet and designed in the time between 1776-1805, a large number of precious greeting and invitation cards, in which he worked with gold and silver dust. These cards are "surimonos referred. In the chapter "Hokusai Sori privately printed" the world of private presses in the time discussed in more detail and we learn to include more poetry of the famous places of Edo.
The imagery here to discuss in detail is impossible at this wealth of images that the book contains. This gives you idea, I have included some pictures in the review.
called Hokusai Katsushika Hokusai and Gakyojin among others. Among his many works were poems and illustrations illustrations for popular novels, such as for adventure novels. His characters are presented with a then unknown in Japan until not real density, which sprang from the intensity with which he human attitudes in just such a nature and Manner as natural phenomena studied. From 1814 his work "manga" encyclopedia, pictures were published. These consisted of 15 volumes. In the chapter "The Legacy of Hokusai Taito" you can read more books to his character, the picture albums and the erotic images. His drawings have so much focus that it takes almost caricatured features.
Hokusai chose most extreme and unusual postures and movements culmination potentiated, however there were scenes of everyday life, which he described. These were, however, been of the conventional art ever presented as genuine. In his manga work, "he masterfully handled as a draftsman the abbreviated technique of point-and-dash system, (see page 130ff).
In the chapter "IItsu:" Hokusai is "A year old" time for new beginning "of his creative impetus in old age, reports in the he made great landscape consequences that are now world famous, it created whole. 137 prints over a period of 5 years. This shows the Fuji, waterfalls, bridges, flowers and spirits. His "36 Views of Mount Fuji" are probably in the western world with the most famous. In his painting and drawing has been his didactic work secondary, though it included several notable books mark.
Hokusai's last years will be called Manja period. In these years he devoted himself primarily to painting because he wanted to respond not only as a woodcut artist, but also as a true artist in history.
This book is a real treasure.
recommended.
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