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    portrait, Hokusai has combined the faces of two demons. One demon is named Hannya, and the second is Yamanba. Hannya’s face comes from a mask used in Noh theatre and Japanese plays. The Hannya mask is supposed to portray souls of women who have become demons due to obsessive jealousy. The demon is said to be dangerous, but also tormented, which shows the complexity of human emotions. The second demon, Yamanba, is believed to eat infants brought to the mountains. In this portrait Hokusai combines…

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    painting, “Under the Wave,” shows just how much a change of perspective can change one’s comprehension. The first way Hokusai manipulates perspective is by utilizing area to impress importance to the audience. Although Mount Fuji carries a giant position in Japanese culture, the tsunami dwarfs Mount Fuji in area, and the sea spray resembles snow falling on to the tip of Mount Fuji. Hokusai paints the size differential to illustrate how much more important to the sailors, the audience’s…

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    Katsushika Hokusai was a Japanese painter who used the ukiyo-e style of painting. He was considered to be the expert on Chinese art in Japan. He was also a printmaker during the Edo period. He was born in what in now known as Tokyo in 1760. He was born to an artisan family, his father being believed to be Nakajima Ise, the mirror maker for the shogun. He may have learned some of his technique from his father, who had paintings and designs on the mirrors he made. It is believed that his mother…

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    unlike mediums include paintings and hand-colored prints. An interesting example of an unconventional medium is an artwork called “Maple Leaves on a River” created by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). This artist took a sheet of paper he had painted blue and let a chicken with red paint on his feet run freely on it. Hokusai created this artwork that communicated a sensation to his audience of a fall day by the river without actually showing this. “Maple Leaves on a River” is a perfect example of…

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    Fuji is standing tall, symbolizing the resilience of Japanese culture despite other impending views. I chose Hokusai because he was a spontaneous and disorganized man, much like the wave which appears to be abnormally large compared to the boats. The boats are like the obstacles Hokusai had in his life. Such as the need to move into multiple houses, his father, or his unhappy wife. Hokusai lived an unordinary life, and he didn’t let any complications stop him from what he wanted to…

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    Each artwork contributes something else to the explanation and observations of the world around us. A piece called “The Great Wave off Kanagawa,” caught my eye and instantly I picked up on what was the background story (Hokusai). This piece of artwork was created by Katsushika Hokusai and it’s a woodblock print that is one of his most famous works. My perspective…

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    Chinese both depict their religious beliefs in their artworks. Japanese like to emphasize more on nature and everyday lives and actions, while Chinese artists like to focus more on religion, Chinese heritage, and ancestors. Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai created a series of artwork based on Mount Fuji called Thirty-Six Views. His work became very popular and portrays the natural world: man versus…

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    Sudden Gust Of Wind

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    The work of photographer Jeff Wall utilizes previous art in order to give his photographes meaning. One of Wall’s pieces of art is A Sudden Gust of Wind, and it takes inspiration from another famous piece of artwork by Hokusai named Ejiri in Suruga Province. The two pieces of art share a very obvious resemblance to each other being that Wall’s purpose was to recreate Hokusai’s previous work. Wall finds a very similar landscape to take his photo at, and he even finds a similar tree. The…

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    Mount Fuji Seen

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    Katsushika Hokusai was a Japanese artist during the 18th and 19th centuries who is known for woodblock printing, “Ukiyo-e” painting, and manga art. What is unique about him is his interest in the “relationship between light and natural phenomena” and how he captured “the moods of nature and the atmospheric conditions of the different seasons and weather” (Hane 39). His most well known piece is “Mount Fuji Seen Below a Wave at Kanagawa” which is part of his series of woodblock prints known as…

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    1826-1833 in the Edo period. This piece is apart of Hokusai’s series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji. Japan’s most famous mountain, Mount Fuji is in every piece in the series. This piece is relatively small at 10 1/8 inches x 14 15/16 inches. Yet, Hokusai did not make his magnificent pieces of art alone, he had skilled craftsman aid in the production of the each of his woodblock prints. This woodblock print is a 19th-century masterpiece that shows brave fisherman going up against the power of…

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