IMAGE CRITIQUE 4

The Great Wave at Kanagawa (from a Series of Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji), Edo period, ca. 1831–33, Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese)

It describes the threat of Kanagawa waves washed vessels, the picture depicts the three were swept Fannong boat. The ship was then escorted the boat transporting live fish. The boat has eight rowers hold the oars in the bow can see two or more passengers, the screen about 30 people. People stiffness in the boat, and in contrast to the wave motion. Over the cumulonimbus storm should now feel, however, the painting but did not rain. Jingtao waves depicted in Figure lift rolled fishing CAPTURING choppy sea, the wind and waves of the moment. Big Wave curve depicted as curved, so that it became the center of the arc of Mt. Wave scattering of waves scattered, as if falling snow at Mt. Boat and rearmost wave almost equal. I think this is the tsunami waves. But this work is not to shorten the wavelength waves depicted tsunami boatmen who struggle to survive and strive image.


Works with Mount Fuji in the background. Mount Fuji is painted on the lower center of the screen in the background. For Japan, Mount Fuji is a sacred symbol of the country, but also a symbol of beauty. The original painting majestic Mount Fuji is very small, and the prospect of waves in stark contrast. Dark and seems to be lit, snow-covered hill is near the horizon, now is the expression of the early morning, while the sun is rising from the side of the viewer. Vision is Mt. This work is Hokusai's most famous work, it is one of the world's most famous works of Japanese art.


Edo is a conservative military government period of relative peace. In order to encourage stability, the influence of Confucian moral revival of interest, the Tokugawa regime society is divided into four separate classes: samurai, farmers, artisans, and - at the bottom of the heap merchants. Culture in the Edo period applied they provide a huge impact to provide a very popular ukiyo-e paintings and engravings of the subject matter. This rather pessimistic view in the Edo era was overthrown. Characters meaning "floating" substituted homonym, meaning "temporary", expressed the attitude of enjoyment of life. This is the praise of life in the "floating world" of hedonistic culture in 1858, the major printmaker overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate disappeared brutal social and political unrest in 1867. Edo society, ukiyo-e art mainstay, has undergone drastic changes as the country was drawn into a movement, along the West line of modernization. Like many elements of Japanese culture, Ukiyo-e is the herald of a new era maelstrom swept away.