Word: hokusai
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could be, in the grace of God, that I shall live to be 89, as did Hokusai, and speaking my farewell to earthly scenes, I might paraphrase: "If God had let me live five years longer, I should have been a writer...
...GREAT MASTERS OF UKIYO-E (2 vols.). East-West Center Press. $25. Wood-block prints by two Japanese artists. The Hokusai series is "The Thirty Six Views of Mount Fuji," while Hiroshige celebrates the joys and troubles of the road in the early 1800s...
...suggestive of the seasons, as oblique as they are abstract. "I am not interested in specific nature," says Christ-Janer, "but in the feeling toward it. I have no message, belong to no schools or groups." His art invites contemplation, not as naturalistically as the 19th century Japanese master Hokusai, depicting the "floating world" in his Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, but with the same aerial delicacy that defies the banalities of time...
ALBERT MARQUET-Knoedler, 14 East 57th. Matisse said of him: "He is our Hokusai." But Marquet, though cunning and concise with lines, was a painter more dexterous than daring. He was also well-traveled, painted the harbors of Hamburg, Le Havre, Naples, Algiers with a tourist's sweeping gaze, as well as Paris scenes. One hundred works cover 49 years. Through...
...strength by weight-lifting a barrel; two men get happily looped on a sake binge; a maiden frowns over a sour note she has struck while tuning her samisen; a ragged little urchin sits perched in a tree while majestic Mount Fuji soars incongruously in the distance. Under Hokusai's brush, Japan emerges as more than a floating land of stylized ritual: he had learned the secret he did not expect to know until he was no, when "every dot and every line from my brush will be alive...