Hokusai Japanese
Posted in Antiques on 05/10/2010 07:13 am by admin
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What is the author concluding?
On the Great Wave by Hokusai "To Westerners, this woodblock seems to be the quintessential Japanese image, yet it's quite un-Japanese. Traditional Japanese would have never painted lower-class fishermen (at the time, fishermen were one of the lowest and most despised of Japanese social classes); Japanese ignored nature; they would not have used perspective; they wouldn't have paid much attention to the subtle shading of the sky. We like the woodblock print because it's familiar to us. The elements of this Japanese pastoral painting originated in Western art: it includes landscape, long-distance perspective, nature, and ordinary humans, all of which were foreign to Japanese art at the time. The Giant Wave is actually a Western painting, seen through Japanese eyes."
The last sentence is clearly presented as the author's conclusion - both literally and figuratively. What it means is a different story. Possibly it is analogous to an Italian chef making curry, or a Indian chef making sushi.
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