Word: hokusai
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...nine children, Dufy had to pinch centimes in his student days. "I concentrated on drawing," he remembers, "because paints were too expensive." That concentration made him a superb draftsman, with a quick, nervous but perfectly assured style reminiscent of Japan's 19th Century master, Hokusai. But Dufy did not begin to paint like Dufy until he was in his 403. He lived on the top of Montmartre, got along by designing wallpaper (see below), tapestries, upholstery and dresses...
Orphaned when he was 13, Hiroshige immediately took over his father's post as a Tokyo fireman. Between fires he taught himself brush drawing. Hiroshige's later prints rivaled even Hokusai's for force of feeling, showed exactly how close art can come to nature without being naturalistic...
...Hokusai, first of the early 19th Century Japanese masters to make landscape his main theme, earned barely enough to live on, though the public thought much more of Ms work than he did. "At the age of six," he once remarked, "I had a passion for reproducing form . . . but even at 70 I had little skill. Only at 73 did I begin to understand how rightly to represent animals, birds, insects, fish, plants. At 90 I shall be better, at 100 I shall be sublime; at no I shall give life to every line, to every...
...though Hokusai died at 89. He left behind him thousands of haunting, crystal-clear landscapes which illustrated poems scrawled across their skies...
...second star of the Metropolitan's show was Hiroshige, who was born 37 years after Hokusai. His work ended the golden age of Japanese prints and started a new era in Western art. His prints, frequently used in wrapping tea for export to Europe, exerted an influence on Manet, Whistler, Degas, and Van Gogh...