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The Floating World,” a multimedia extravaganza inspired by the art of 18th- and 19th-century Japan, is on view through ...
On Saturday, June 21, the Cleve Carney Museum of Art and the McAninch Arts Center are celebrating this summer’s must-see ...
College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn is celebrating Japan’s iconic Shogun era with a never-seen-in-the-U.S. art exhibit. “Hokusai ...
Centered on the extraordinary appeal of "The Great Wave Off Kanagawa" by Katsushika Hokusai, this exhibition offers a smartly ...
Hokusai brought to life a monumental wave that would become a worldwide icon. Behind this print lies a history of artistic ...
the aesthetic of these woodblock prints was considered by the West as quintessential Japanese art. It is a notion that still persists today. The obsession with ukiyo-e and specifically Hokusai’s ...
From fascinating woodblock prints and beautiful landscape paintings to eye-catching sculptures, Japanese artists have created monumental pieces that have transformed the world of art. These famous ...
The “Great Wave” is an integral part of Hokusai’s revered collection of woodblock prints: the “Thirty-six Views of Mount ... is Hokusai’s magnum opus and arguably the most familiar Japanese artwork to ...
Japanese traditional woodblock prints, known as ukiyo-e ... Artists like Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849), Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858), and Kitagawa Utamaro (1753–1806) became masters ...
was a genre of Japanese woodblock prints that first interested me in Japanese art. Two of these well-known print artists were Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) and Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858).
Last year a print of “Under the Wave off Kanagawa,” the near-ubiquitous image by Katsushika Hokusai better ... 150 Years of Japanese Landscape Prints,” a new exhibition opening on Dec ...