Couverture Japonaise Geisha Woman, Hokusai, Ukiyo-e

葛 飾 Katsushika 斎 Hokusai Katsushika Hokusai (October or Novembre 1760 - May 10, 1849) ce qu'a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the the Edo period. En his time, voilà ce que le Japon est en train de faire, expert on chinese painting. Born à Edo (now Tokyo), Hokusai is best-known as author of the woodblock print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji ( Fugaku Sanjūroku-kei c. 1831) which includes the internationally recognized print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, created during the 1820 s. His influences stretched to his contemporains, in nineteenth century Europe whose new style Nouveau, or jeunesse dans Germany, ce qui influence l'influence de l'espèce him and by Japanese art en général. This was part of the larger Impressionist movement with similar themes to Hokusai appearing in Claude Monet andPierre-Auguste Renoir. Hermann Obrist's whiplash motif ou fouichis, which cams to exemplify the new movement, is visibly influced by Hokusai's work.