Vocab - Notes

Artist: Hokusai

Significant Culture or Geographic Locations: Japanese (then later, France)

process - technique: wood block print, printmaking

series

edition (open edition)

cultural influence

theme: man vs. nature

prussian blue

Mount Fuji

media - medium -material: ink (then later, everything)

ARTicle: My Modern Met About Hokusai

ARTicle: Google Arts and Culture 10 Things About Hokusai

Round Robin Reading of chunked article.

Rumors About Hokusai

What is the focal point? What creates visual tension? How did the artist create a sense of visual movement? Take a moment to appreciate directional force.

This moment is frozen in time. Imagine this plays out, and the next day the water is still. What will remain?

When you "google" search "The Golden Ratio and the Great Wave, you get at lot of wrong image results. The golden ratio is there, but the stereotypical spiral is flipped. Below is the correct rotation. The focal point is the mountain.

Don't trust what you comes up first in an internet search, just because it is what comes up first in an internet search.