About Hokusai - Japanese ukiyo-e artist
Introduction to Hokusai
This lens is about the famous Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai (1760-1849) and images of his art work in museums and art galleries, in online galleries and in books and videos. It provided support for a project about Japanese Art in Making A Mark in 2008. This included looking at the work of Hokusai and his use of wood-block prints (ukiyo-e) and influence on Impressionism.

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Katsushika Hokusai
Born in Edo which is today Tokyo, Hokusai is most familiar as creator of the woodblock print set titled Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. This series an iconic as well as internationally famous print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, which had been created in the 1820s. Hokusai made "Thirty-Six Views" each as a reaction to a domestic travel boom occuring during this era, as well as due to his individual fixation with Mount Fuji. It had been this set, particularly The Great Wave print, as well as an...

Hokusai
Katsushika Hokusai
Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) was was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e (floating world) painter and printmaker. His most work was the famous series of woodblock prints, Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (1823-1829). In this series, the print "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" and the print "Fuji in Clear Weather" are probably the most celebrated. This series, and especially "The Great Wave off Kanagawa", had a huge effect on contemporary 19th century Western art, such as the Art nouveau/Jugendstil moveme...