Guimet museum hokusai biography

We particularly owe to this brilliant painter and draughtsman, Hokusai, the promotion in the first decades of the 19th century of a new taste for landscape, a.
The Guimet Museum in Paris has a large collection of works of Hokusai, who was born in 1760, the result of several donations that have spread over the.
Le musée national des Arts asiatiques - Guimet, et couramment appelé musée Guimet, est un musée d'arts asiatiques situé à Paris, 6, place d'Iéna.

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The Great Wave off Kanagawa

Woodblock print by Hokusai

"Great Wave" redirects here. For other uses, see Great Wave (disambiguation).

The Great Wave off Kanagawa (Japanese: 神奈川沖浪裏, Hepburn: Kanagawa-oki Nami Ura, lit. 'Under the Wave off Kanagawa')^[a] is a woodblock print by Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai, created in late 1831 during the Edo period of Japanese history. The print depicts three boats moving through a storm-tossed sea, with a large, cresting wave forming a spiral in the centre over the boats and Mount Fuji visible in the background.

The print is Hokusai's best-known work and the first in his series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, in which the use of Prussian blue revolutionized Japanese prints. The composition of The Great Wave is a synthesis of traditional Japanese prints and use of graphical perspective developed in Europe, and earned him immediate success in Japan and later in Europe, where Hokusai's art inspired works by the Impressionists. Several museums throughout the world hold copies of The Great Wave, many of which came

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And yet, painted in the very early 1830s, it represents a turning point in the history of engraving on wood in Japan in general and Hokusai’s art in particular. Since the 17^th century prints were continually evolving, technically, with the growing number of colours, as well as thematically and stylistically. At first these works with numerous printings aimed at popularising places of pleasure, famous actors, and celebrated courtesans. But that evocation of the “floating world” (ukiyo-e) gradually evolved, both becoming a full-fledged means of expression and acquiring a more introspective dimension. We particularly owe to this brilliant painter and draughtsman, Hokusai, the promotion in the first decades of the 19^th century of a new taste for landscape, a genre both ancient, recalling the Chinese painting tradition, and novel, in the ukiyo-e context of this last Edo period.

One aspect of Hokusai’s originality is also his creation of series. The first and most famous is the one that in c. 1830 he devoted to the thirty-six views of the emblematic volcano of the island of Hon

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The exhibition Hokusai in Paris

The Japan Foundation is proud to announce that the exhibition Hokusai will be held at the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, administered by Réunion des Musées Nationaux - Grand Palais, France, from October 1, 2014 through January 18, 2015.

Katsushika Hokusai, popularly known simply as Hokusai, is perhaps the most famous Japanese artist of all time, and is recognized worldwide as one of the greatest artists who ever lived. It is said that the wave of Japonism that swept 19th-century Europe, and Paris in particular, began when printmaker Félix Bracquemond came across a book of “Hokusai Manga” (or sketches). “Hokusai Manga” then exerted a strong influence on artists throughout Europe, contributing to the rise of both Impressionism and Art Nouveau.

The year of 2014 marks 200 years since the publication of the first of the "Hokusai Manga". The Japan Foundation and the Réunion des Musées Nationaux - Grand Palais will celebrate this occasion with a major retrospective of Hokusai to present a