Hokusai and Hiroshige

[dgenerator]

I'ma tell you about Japanese "ukiyo-e" ('Floating World') prints.

Everybody who knows anything about Japanese art knows (and usually loves) Hokusai Katsushika. That's as incontravertable a fact as "If you know anything about cars, you know Ford." You know Hokusai, in fact. He did the woodblock ukiyo-e print The Great Wave Off Kanagawa, which you

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[ah_champagne]

This is cool: if I wasn't scrambling to finish my degree show work (and avoiding its paperwork associates...), I would chatter on more about Japanese prints. Instead: I will impart with random information -- a few months ago, I went to a talk with painter Atsuhide Ito, who completed a PhD at my university. His work, which is shown quite poorly on the internet, deals with creating paintings of non-spaces visited along an a-to-b journey. From his brilliant talk, Ito took a lot from 'The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō', although it might not be immediately evident in documentation of his work. I wish he'd publish his PhD thesis; the man seemed super interesting and knowledgeable about supermodernity, Japan, art history, and neat things.

This is all. I like how we end up being interested in similar things - ride a vein of information that melds up well together. Now, I'll get back to sewing flags that represent the non-representable.

[baronessv]

That right there is pretty damn awesome.

[the1andonlycj]

i'm jealous.

also, i'm playing mass effect and it keeps crashing at inopportune times. *sigh* (i bring this up because i remember you saying something about mass effect and how people should play it at some point... i think._.)

[noizangel]

Nice! If you're ever in Chicago, the Art Institute has an amazing collection of Japanese prints - some rarer ones as well.