Hokusai. Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji.
Hazan| N° d'inventaire | 22780 |
| Format | 17 x 24.5 |
| Détails | 228 p., leporello and booklet in slipcase. |
| Publication | Paris, 2018 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782754110518 |
The complete 36 Views of Mount Fuji, including the ten additional prints commissioned by Hokusai's publisher following the success of this series. "If only the heavens would grant me ten more years... If only the heavens would grant me five more years, I would become a great artist." By formulating these wishes at the end of his life, Hokusai (1760-1849), today considered the most famous artist of his time, expressed his eternal quest for perfection. In the early 1830s, he began his colorful series of Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, thus reaching the peak of his career. Devoted entirely to landscapes, the series presents Mount Fuji from a multitude of viewpoints and framings. A tireless traveler, Hokusai, passionate about nature, explored all facets of the volcano. Sometimes solitary and majestic, or sketched in a distant horizon, as a great spectator of the world of men, the sacred mountain is unshakeable despite the seasons and the weather. But it is not the only element of observation: the people, in all their diversity, are busy, occupied with all sorts of daily activities, sometimes in symbiosis with their environment, peaceful and beneficent, or on the contrary, in contact with a sovereign, magnificent and merciless nature, as in The Great Wave off Kanagawa. He thus captures the instantaneous, the ephemeral, but also the eternal. Nature, for its part, remains and is constantly renewed under the aegis of its great sovereign, the immutable Mount Fuji with its snow-capped peak. Creative, Hokusai plays with color, and in particular with Prussian blue, an artificial pigment recently imported from Holland, more intense and deep than the natural blues traditionally used. The master plays with atmospheric effects and the anecdotal, and combines Japanese pictorial tradition, largely influenced by the Chinese model, with Western perspective. The success of these prints is considerable and popularizes the landscape genre. From then on, Hokusai's publisher commissioned ten new plates from him, Fuji Seen from the Other Side. This box set therefore contains a complete collection of forty-six prints in total, accompanied by an explanatory booklet describing each of the prints in the most famous series by the great Japanese master.
The complete 36 Views of Mount Fuji, including the ten additional prints commissioned by Hokusai's publisher following the success of this series. "If only the heavens would grant me ten more years... If only the heavens would grant me five more years, I would become a great artist." By formulating these wishes at the end of his life, Hokusai (1760-1849), today considered the most famous artist of his time, expressed his eternal quest for perfection. In the early 1830s, he began his colorful series of Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, thus reaching the peak of his career. Devoted entirely to landscapes, the series presents Mount Fuji from a multitude of viewpoints and framings. A tireless traveler, Hokusai, passionate about nature, explored all facets of the volcano. Sometimes solitary and majestic, or sketched in a distant horizon, as a great spectator of the world of men, the sacred mountain is unshakeable despite the seasons and the weather. But it is not the only element of observation: the people, in all their diversity, are busy, occupied with all sorts of daily activities, sometimes in symbiosis with their environment, peaceful and beneficent, or on the contrary, in contact with a sovereign, magnificent and merciless nature, as in The Great Wave off Kanagawa. He thus captures the instantaneous, the ephemeral, but also the eternal. Nature, for its part, remains and is constantly renewed under the aegis of its great sovereign, the immutable Mount Fuji with its snow-capped peak. Creative, Hokusai plays with color, and in particular with Prussian blue, an artificial pigment recently imported from Holland, more intense and deep than the natural blues traditionally used. The master plays with atmospheric effects and the anecdotal, and combines Japanese pictorial tradition, largely influenced by the Chinese model, with Western perspective. The success of these prints is considerable and popularizes the landscape genre. From then on, Hokusai's publisher commissioned ten new plates from him, Fuji Seen from the Other Side. This box set therefore contains a complete collection of forty-six prints in total, accompanied by an explanatory booklet describing each of the prints in the most famous series by the great Japanese master.