Hokusai Katsushika Woodblock The Red Fuji
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The mountain stands out sharply and clearly against a deep-blue sky that seems to extend to infinity. There is volume here, and a scope that refuses to be limited by the narrow dimensions of the printed surface. The woodblock print is not a medium that lends itself to the expression of sheer grandeur, but grandeur is what Hokusai has achieved there by a bold and skillful use of uncluttered lines and basic light and color values. The colors themselves are uncomplicated -- red, brown, blue, white and two shades of green, for the most part in solid patches with a minimum of shading. But these colors have been chosen and combined with an unerring eye for their weight and value with regard to each other and to the composition as a whole. Surely it was this daring, but sensitive use of bright colors in the best Japanese woodblock prints that commended them to the Western artists of the late nineteenth century.
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Hokusai Katsushika Woodblock The Red Fuji
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