Nick Criscitelli
Katsushika Hokusai was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. Hokusai is best-known as author of the woodblock print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (c. 1831) which includes his famous woodblock print The Great Wave off Kanagawa.
Katsushika Hokusai was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. Hokusai is best-known as author of the woodblock print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (c. 1831) which includes his famous woodblock print The Great Wave off Kanagawa.
I was drawn to a lot of Japanese printmaking as an art student. The simplicity of the form, the limited pallets all point to one truth. These master printmakers could communicate, visually, ideas without complicated representation. Translated: They made art with very little and succeeded. Art is communication. How do I make this understandable to people? How do I get them to suspend disbelief for a second and walk in the space of this work? Questions every artist worth their weight asks themselves. Complicated themes out the door, these prints are about nature and rural life. I find Hokusai prints to be equally thrilling and yet calming. They could hang anywhere and compliment any room. That’s the brilliance of these simple art pieces.
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I’m excited about this class! In revisiting these works, I can share this interest of Japanese art and allow people to bring a little piece of that home with them. Hopefully everyone will enjoy the experience of painting, Hokusai’s masterwork, a view of Mount Fuji.
Mount Fuji by Nick Criscitelli
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