| ▲ | srean 5 hours ago |
| You mean like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa_-... His "Big Wave" has that right left position https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Th... Love the birds in this one, especially the way it mirrors the wave crest fingers. Hokusai seems to have lunch ved these birds. They figure in his caged Bird pieces. |
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| ▲ | lioeters 4 hours ago | parent [-] |
| That "Big Wave" variation with birds flying over the waves is strikingly beautiful. So dynamic and raw compared to the famous one. And how poetic the shapes of birds rhyme with the shape of waves. I'm gonna have to set aside some time to appreciate Hokusai's works again. Lovely. |
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| ▲ | srean 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The wave is almost like a live character in this one. Like an angry god caught in a moment of fury. | |
| ▲ | sph 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | The wave/birds juxtaposition is very Escher-like | | |
| ▲ | srean 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Indeed. Check this out https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1899550/1/11/ I don't know whether Escher was familiar with Hokusai's work but they shared a common interest in tilings and tesselations. Damned if I can find those Hokusai sketches on the web now. | | |
| ▲ | lioeters an hour ago | parent [-] | | Wow that is kind of mind-blowing. Looking through other pages, Hokusai is showing each "rule" (法) and its application (tessalation) that produces the pattern. It makes me wonder about what kind of cultural exchange was happening between Japan and Europe at the time. | | |
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