Hokusai

About the author

Olga Nikolaevna Solodovnikova in 1997 graduated from the History Faculty of Moscow State University named after MV Lomonosov, a department of the history of art, specialized in the Japanese medieval decorative and applied painting, namely on the paintings of the screen, fans and scrolls to the plot of the famous world of the novel "Tale of Genni" of the Hayan era (794-1185)-work, work, work, work, work. Verily no analogues in world literature. In 2000, she received a second higher education with a red diploma with a degree in a specialist regimentalist. Japanese translator "at the Department of Japanese Philology Isaa MSU named after M.V. Lomonosov. At the end of the universities, she worked as the guardian of the Eastern Graphic Fund in the engraving department and the drawing of the Plane named after A.S. Pushkin.

Today, the name of the Japanese artist Katsusik Hokusay is probably known all over the world. Hokusai is one of the leading masters of color engraving on the tree of the Edo period (Tokugawa 1603–1868) and one of the most famous artists of Japan. He is well known in Europe, Russia, they write a lot about him, study and study his works, regularly conduct exhibitions of his works in different countries, and documentary films are shot about his work. Hokusai was one of those masters with whom the opening of Japanese art began as an independent art world, one of the first who became known in the West. Hokusai"s legacy is huge. He lived a long life, almost 90 years, and during this time he created a huge number of works. This is an easel engraving, and book illustrations, picturesque scrolls and screens, monumental paintings. To date, there are about thirty thousand units of his work. Each new researcher and a new era open in his art still unknown before, other, consonant of their time of the creation of creativity. This mini-album, equipped with a large number of colorful illustrations, talks about the life and work of the great Japanese artist and introduces his works