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Hokusai divided the painting with a crescent arc that acts as a divisional line before human world and a supernatural, ghost world. [4] The work has similar framing that is present in Hokusai's previous landscape prints such as View from Massaki of Suijin Shrine, Uchigawa Inlet, and Sekiya (1857). The plain background is akin to a wall, and the ...
Draco of Athens: c. 620 BC: The Athenian lawmaker was reportedly smothered to death by gifts of cloaks and hats showered upon him by appreciative citizens at a theatre in Aegina, Greece. [5] [6] [7] Duke Jing of Jin: 581 BC
Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾 北斎, c. 31 October 1760 – 10 May 1849), known mononymously as Hokusai, was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period, active as a painter and printmaker. [1] His woodblock print series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji includes the iconic print The Great Wave off Kanagawa .
Athens is one of the oldest named cities in the world, having been continuously inhabited for perhaps 5,000 years. Situated in southern Europe, Athens became the leading city of ancient Greece in the first millennium BC, and its cultural achievements during the 5th century BC laid the foundations of Western civilization.
The Great Wave off Kanagawa, the best known print in the series (20th century reprint). Mount Fuji is in the center distance.. Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Japanese: 富嶽三十六景, Hepburn: Fugaku Sanjūrokkei) is a series of landscape prints by the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai (1760–1849).
Hokusai uses an abundance of color, in order to highlight the new and main theme: the falling water. [3] Besides using imported blue pigments, the artist also adds contrasting yellows, browns and greens to paint the surrounding forested mountains. Two highlights from the series are Hokusai's depictions of Kirifuri and Amida waterfalls.
A page from the Manga, showing people with their faces hidden Hokusai Manga depicting self-defense techniques (early 19th century). The traditional view holds that, after the outburst of production, Hokusai carefully selected and redrew the sketches, arranging them into the patterns we see today.
The urban population tripled from 8% in 1853 to 24% in 1907. Athens grew from a village of 6000 people in 1834, when it became the capital, to 63,000 in 1879, 111,000 in 1896, and 167,000 in 1907. [33] In Athens and other cities, men arriving from rural areas set up workshops and stores, creating a middle class.