No wonder artists such as Lautrec and Van Gogh were so impressed when they encountered works like this by Hokusai. Here, too!
Late Edo period, Japan. The famous artist Hokusai (he changed his name thirty times e.g. from 1834 :
Gakyō Rōjin Manji/The Old Man Mad About Art)
paints onto silk the scene of an unsung painter applying fresh coal black to the base of a red pillar.
Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) : seal worthy of our best tagger
Monash University, Clayton, 1975. The brand new Department of Visual Arts' first artist-in-residence FIAPCE (also known by various other names) photographs the scene of an unsung painter applying white paint to a red post.
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Late Edo period, Japan. The famous artist Hokusai (he changed his name thirty times e.g. from 1834 :
Gakyō Rōjin Manji/The Old Man Mad About Art)
paints onto silk the scene of an unsung painter applying fresh coal black to the base of a red pillar.
Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) : seal worthy of our best tagger
Monash University, Clayton, 1975. The brand new Department of Visual Arts' first artist-in-residence FIAPCE (also known by various other names) photographs the scene of an unsung painter applying white paint to a red post.
detail
A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something...
LOGOS/HA HA
[Painting Red Posts White]
someone looks at something...
LOGOS/HA HA
[Painting Red Posts White]