Hokusai
Japanese woodblock master
Hokusai was a Japanese artist of the Edo period, best known for the woodblock print series *Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji*, which includes *The Great Wave off Kanagawa*—one of the most recognized images in world art.
His work influenced Western Impressionists and remains iconic in both fine art and popular culture.
Full name: Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849).
Japanese coastal prefecture
- snowcapFrozen peak covering
- sacredWorthy of reverence
- iconicWidely recognized, enduring
- pilgrimageReligious journey to shrine
volcano · peak · landscape · panorama · horizon · viewpoint · seasons · weather
Artist using pressed plates
- painterOne who applies pigment
- woodblockCarved printing matrix
- brushworkPainter's stroke method
- craftsmanshipSkill in making objects
artistry · sumi-e · manga · sketches · polyptych · album · prolific
Carved printing matrix
Art movement emphasizing light
- MonetFrench Impressionist surname
- DegasFrench Impressionist's surname
- DebussyFrench impressionist composer
- pioneerEarly explorer or settler
visionary · innovator · iconic · legacy · inspiration · composition · perspective · dynamism
Kanagawa
Japanese coastal prefecture
pilgrimage · volcano · peak · landscape · panorama · horizon · viewpoint · seasons · weather · travelers
printmaker
Artist using pressed plates
craftsmanship · artistry · sumi-e · manga · sketches · polyptych · album · prolific
woodblock
Carved printing matrix
Impressionism
Art movement emphasizing light
- MonetFrench Impressionist surname
- DegasFrench Impressionist's surname
- DebussyFrench impressionist composer
pioneer · visionary · innovator · iconic · legacy · inspiration · composition · perspective · dynamism · asymmetry
Tokugawa
Ruling samurai dynasty, 1600s-1800s
merchant · artisan · publisher · kabuki · sumo · teahouse · urban · culture · commoner · townspeople
- printmakersprintmakers, printmaker, etcher, etchers, engravers
- artistsPablo Picasso, painter, artist, illustrators, Leonardo da Vinci
- paintersBotticelli, Caravaggio, Cezanne, Da Vinci, Dali
- Asian historyancient China, China, empresses, shoguns, Chinese civilization
- Edo Japanshogun, samurai, shogunate, daimyo, Tokugawa
- Asian FiguresConfucius, Lao Tzu, Sun Tzu, Mencius, Mao Zedong
HokusaiRembrandt
Seventeenth-century Dutch painter
Vermeer · Caravaggio · Michelangelo · Leonardo da Vinci · J.M.W. Turner
Hokusaisamurai
Feudal Japanese military caste
shogun · warrior class · Tokugawa Ieyasu · daimyo · feudal lord
HokusaiKazimir Malevich
Black Square painter
Piet Mondrian · abstract expressionists · Mark Rothko · Jackson Pollock