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Index
View pictures:
Integral Facsimiles:
- 100 views of the Fuji: 1,
2,
3,
all
- Glories
of China and Japan
- Illustrations of Chinese poetry:
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
all
- The life of Buddha:
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
all
- The Mangas:
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10,
11,
12,
13,
14,
15,
all
Other masterpieces:
The meaning of Hokusai's mangas :
Hokusais Mangas are certainly the most popular and
most influential works of Japanese art.
"Mangas" means "crazy pictures" or "pictures in motion". They give the artist unconditional total freedom. Many conservative art critics
were and some still are flabbergasted, because Mr. Hokusai abandoned all sacred rules of art. He did not care if the art consultants were falling out of their underpants. Yeah, such events are possible in the non-Einsteinian gravity fields in a 2-dimensional Manga-continuum.
The artist is a demon, who can be everywhere and see the visible and the invisible from all angles and in all scales.
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(detail)
A fly can be bigger and more prominent
than the Fujiama. The artist is freed from all limits including
bending and patching space, time and motion. Hokusai
did this more than 150 years ago, when Biedermeier dominated
European art - in order to counter the liberalism unleashed by the French revolution.
A sample of a manga following Hokusai in his lifetime
Kawanabe Kyosai (1831-1889)
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