Hokusai • After Edmond de Goncourt

Japanese Art from the Gerry Collection • MET

Katsushika Hokusai [jpg]

Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾 北斎?), conocido simplemente como Hokusai (北斎?) (Edo, actual Tokio, 31 de octubre de 1760 - 10 de mayo de 1849) fue un pintor y grabador japonés, adscrito a la escuela Ukiyo-e del periodo Edo. Es uno de los principales artistas de esta escuela conocida como «pinturas del mundo flotante».  También es conocido por la diversidad de nombres que utilizó a lo largo de su carrera profesional, Shunro, Sori, Kako, Taito, Gakyonjin, Iitsu y Manji.

 Fue autor de una obra inmensa y variada. Por ejemplo, en el Hokusai Manga (北斎まんが, Hokusai Manga) (1814-1849),n. ​muestra la vida diaria de su población, con una gran exactitud y sentido del humor. Realizó grabados de paisajes, las Treinta y seis vistas del monte Fuji (富嶽三十六景, Fugaku Sanjūroku-kei)(ca. 1830-1833) ​ y las Cien vistas del monte Fuji (1834),3​que reflejan en parte una fijación personal con el Monte Fuji. Fueron obras de esta serie, La gran ola de Kanagawa (神奈川沖浪裏, Kanagawa Oki Nami Ura) y Fuji en días claros (凱風快晴, gai kaze kaisei), las que aseguraron la fama de Hokusai, tanto dentro del Japón como en el extranjero.

 A mediados del siglo XIX sus grabados, así como los de otros artistas japoneses, llegaron a París. Allí eran coleccionados, especialmente por parte de artistas postimpresionistas de la talla de Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin y Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, cuya obra denota una profunda influencia de los grabados mencionados.

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsushika_Hokusai 

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Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾 北斎, About this sound listen (help·info), c. October 31, 1760 – May 10, 1849) was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. Born in Edo (now Tokyo), Hokusai is best known as author of the woodblock print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (富嶽三十六景 Fugaku Sanjūroku-kei, c. 1831) which includes the internationally iconic print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa.

 Hokusai created the Thirty-Six Views both as a response to a domestic travel boom and as part of a personal obsession with Mount Fuji. It was this series, specifically The Great Wave print and Fine Wind, Clear Morning, that secured Hokusai’s fame both in Japan and overseas. As historian Richard Lane concludes, "Indeed, if there is one work that made Hokusai's name, both in Japan and abroad, it must be this monumental print-series". While Hokusai's work prior to this series is certainly important, it was not until this series that he gained broad recognition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokusai

 

Cal Tjader tomó "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" para su portada del disco "Breeze From The East".

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Cal Tjader took "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" for his album cover

 

 

https://egrojworld.blogspot.com/2023/06/cal-tjader-breeze-from-east.html

Utamaro • Edmond de Goncourt

Kitagawa Utamaro (1753 – 31 October 1806) was a Japanese artist. He is one of the most highly regarded designers of ukiyo-e woodblock prints and paintings, and is best known for his bijin ōkubi-e "large-headed pictures of beautiful women" of the 1790s. He also produced nature studies, particularly illustrated books of insects.

Little is known of Utamaro's life. His work began to appear in the 1770s, and he rose to prominence in the early 1790s with his portraits of beauties with exaggerated, elongated features. He produced over 2000 known prints and was one of the few ukiyo-e artists to achieve fame throughout Japan in his lifetime. In 1804 he was arrested and manacled for fifty days for making illegal prints depicting the 16th-century military ruler Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and died two years later.

Utamaro's work reached Europe in the mid-nineteenth century, where it was very popular, enjoying particular acclaim in France. He influenced the European Impressionists, particularly with his use of partial views and his emphasis on light and shade, which they imitated. The reference to the "Japanese influence" among these artists often refers to the work of Utamaro.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utamaro

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Kitagawa Utamaro (h. 1753 - 1806) (su nombre se transliteró igualmente como Outamaro y Utamaru) era un pintor de estampas japonés, considerado uno de los mejores artistas de los grabados ukiyo-e. Se le conoce especialmente por sus magistrales composiciones de mujeres, conocidas como bijinga. También hizo estudios de la naturaleza, en particular libros ilustrados de insectos.

Su obra llegó a Europa a mediados del siglo XIX, donde se hizo muy popular, disfrutando de especial aceptación en Francia. Influyó a los impresionistas europeos, particularmente por su uso de vistas parciales, con énfasis en la luz y la sombra. 

Fuente: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utamaro

Edmond de Goncourt (Author)

The Great Wave The Influence of Japanese Woodcuts on French Prints • MET

After Admiral Perry broke through Japan's isolation in 1854, the current of Japanese trade flowed west again, bearing with it the colored woodcuts of Hokusai, Hiroshige, and their contemporaries. Some of the most avid collectors of these prints were the French Impressionists and Nabis, who found in them new ways to treat their own prints. In The Great Wave, Colta Feller Ives, Curator in Charge, Department of Prints and Photographs, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, recounts the phenomenal "cult of Japan" in late nineteenth-century France and reveals through direct comparisons its particular impact on the graphic work of Manet, Degas, Cassatt, Bonnard, Vuillard, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Gauguin.