Having seen this image since inception, I never noticed Mt. Fuji in the background.
1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023)
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#32Having seen this image since inception, I never noticed Mt. Fuji in the background.
Its gotta be in there - that print (and 35 others believe it or not) are from hokusai's collection: Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji
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#33Having seen this image since inception, I never noticed Mt. Fuji in the background.
I didn't notice the boats
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#34somebody explained me that the correct way to appreciate this painting is to invert it on horizontal axis. the reason is, japanese is read from right to left. once you invert it you can appreciate it better
You mean like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa_-... His "Big Wave" has that right left position https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Th... Love the birds in this one, especially the way it mirrors the wave crest fingers. Hokusai seems to have lunch ved these birds. They figure in his caged Bird pieces.
That "Big Wave" variation with birds flying over the waves is strikingly beautiful. So dynamic and raw compared to the famous one. And how poetic the shapes of birds rhyme with the shape of waves. I'm gonna have to set aside some time to appreciate Hokusai's works again. Lovely.
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#35somebody explained me that the correct way to appreciate this painting is to invert it on horizontal axis. the reason is, japanese is read from right to left. once you invert it you can appreciate it better
Doesn't this assume that people (in the west, at least) "perceive" paintings from left to right? That doesn't strike me as particularly true.
This is taught in graphic design, how people typically scan information from left to right and top to bottom, in cultures where the written language flows in that direction. However, a counter argument could be made that people perceive paintings differently from the way they read written text. There have been studies about how the Japanese perceive images and sounds with the same area of the brain that processes language, in contrast to other cultures where they're processed separately. [citaion needed]
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
You mean like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa_-... His "Big Wave" has that right left position https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Th... Love the birds in this one, especially the way it mirrors the wave crest fingers. Hokusai seems to have lunch ved these birds. They figure in his caged Bird pieces.
That "Big Wave" variation with birds flying over the waves is strikingly beautiful. So dynamic and raw compared to the famous one. And how poetic the shapes of birds rhyme with the shape of waves. I'm gonna have to set aside some time to appreciate Hokusai's works again. Lovely.
The wave/birds juxtaposition is very Escher-like
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#38I am having a surprisingly hard time finding Hokusai's exercises on tesselations. Has search become really this bad ! Anyway wanted to show his sketch of a bird behind chicken wire fence/cage. Similar birds here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47901702
The best I could find were these:
https://archive.org/details/hokusaiimayoyhi00kats/page/5/mod...
https://archive.org/details/imayoykushikisev1kats/page/19/mo...
Are you sure you're remembering right?
Here's archive's list of Hokusai books:
https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Katsushika%2C+...
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#39I am having a surprisingly hard time finding Hokusai's exercises on tesselations. Has search become really this bad ! Anyway wanted to show his sketch of a bird behind chicken wire fence/cage. Similar birds here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47901702
The dead web makes things hard to find:
https://www.rawpixel.com/image/7660768/image-art-vintage-pub...
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#40FYI, Hokusai also drew Hentai.
So? Go play the morality police elsewhere.