Ukiyo-e prints (images of the floating world) were invented when demand became so great a mass marketing innovation was required. Right click or select “i” for information for captions. Installation photos below: Catherine Ryan. Imported and available by the 1820s in Japan and cheap (unlike ultramarine), the synthetic dark blue pigment known as ‘Prussian blue’ was stable and could be used to create deep, rich velvety blue and great transparency-a game changer for artists and woodblock prints.
With so much sea and sky, the color blue in every hue and tone is everywhere.
The broad survey is an introduction to how the Japanese woodblock industry and ukiyo-e art and culture influenced French fashion, design, and the art movements which inspired modern art (and vice versa).īy the time of the Great Wave, Hokusai maximized landscapes which was novel at the time. After this introduction to the ‘lineage’ years, the installation is grouped by themes dear to Hokusai juxtaposed with work by artists in the decades following his death in 1849. The exhibition unfolds with masterpieces by both Hokusai and Katsukawa Shunshō and with exceptional work by their students and peers. Eventually Hokusai became an independent artist & teacher. Japanese artist Katsukawa Shunshō operated the most popular ukiyo-e studio and Hokusai was employed there for over a decade until Shunsho’s death. You might not know the man but you likely know that surf.
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Fuji, a series so popular the artist increased it to Forty-six. Also known as The Great Wave ( an abbreviated and generalized title that amplified sales) the woodblock print is from Thirty-six Views of Mt. Thanks to the MFA collections, its acquisitions and gifts, and great temporary loans, this exhibition celebrates Japanese art, especially Hokusai, emanating from his most iconic and lasting image, Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), 1830-32. The bulk of the MFA’s Hokusai trove were collected by Dr. was eventually purchased by Charles Weld, Boston physician and collector, with the stipulation that it be given to the MFA. The inventory acquired by Ernest Fenollosa, an art historian, educator, and later, curator. The collection was amassed early and driven by four scholars. Highlights are featured with great care because of their fragility and easy rotation because of the depth of the museum’s holdings. The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston established one of the largest and finest Asian art departments in the world in the 1890s thanks to art historian curators, collectors, and benefactors. About 200 works of art by other artists spanning 200+ years demonstrate a sample of Hokusai’s relevance and inspiration to artists he knew or taught, and to artists and movements, generation by generation and around the globe, since his death. Hokusai: Inspiration and Influence at the MFA, lays out 100 examples of Katsushika Hokusai’s lifework in every period, genre, and medium, his famous woodblock series, new discoveries and rarities, and the Japanese and Western cultural exchanges that impacted his own practice. Students and friends paid for his funeral. Hokusai died at 90 impoverished financially though not in obscurity. He produced three of his most popular bodies of work when he was in his seventies. To supplement his income, Hokusai changed his name some 20 times, selling his surname or ‘brand’ to select pupils. A life in art and print publishing is tough going now and it was then. Hokusai eked out a living as a printmaker and illustrator, setting off on his own after years with the prestigious Katsukawa School, a premiere teaching and publishing powerhouse specializing in the ukiyo-e style color woodblock prints. He was an influential and revered artist and fine arts professor in his own lifetime. Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) was a famous Japanese artist who came from humble beginnings and was active in the Edo period. Exhibition at the MFA Hokusai Inspiration and Influence 2023
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