Wood cuts and landscapes.

[Tannin]

Yesterday I went to the National Gallery's current Katsushika Hokusai exhibition. Hokusai created many famous wood blocks, paintings and drawings in the early part of the 18th Century, and is perhaps Japan's greatest artist. If you can bring a famous Japanese artwork to mind, it is very possibly his. Well ... I was supposed to be meeting family there, and I planned to spend 20-odd minutes doing a quick canter around the Hokusai in which I was only mildly interested before slipping upstairs to a photography exhibition in a different part of the gallery - that's more my usual sort of line after all. ..... The staff eventually kicked me out of the Hokusai at closing time and I was still wanting to look at just one or two more. I reckon I learned more about composition in 20 minutes with his Thirty-six Views of Mt Fuji series than I usually learn in a year of doing anything else much.

https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/exhibition/hokusai/

Don't miss it!

[jim]

On second thoughts, not worth posting.

Love Japanese woodcuts.

[Claire M]

They are truly beautiful artworks :), and thanks for the link.

[Glenda]

They are beautiful and as is often the case, we can often become entranced by art we didn't think we had any interest in.

[John King]

I agree, Tony.

We have a number of original woodblocks, several modern ones around A1 size. I also have a Japanese book of around 100+ original woodblocks in their classic size. Just superb.

We haven't been to the Hokusai exhibition yet, but I expect to go more than once.