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.

“There is nothing that he would not want to portray. This is incredible. ”
Timothy Clark

Hokusai - one of the leading masters of color engraving on the tree of the Tokugawa period (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 discovery 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. This colorful album tells about the creative path of the great master, as well as the curious facts from the life of his daughter-artist Katsusiki OI, are presented as work from the most famous episodes of the great master, such as “thirty-six species of Fuji”, “fifty-three Hokkaido stations”, “Traveling along the waterfalls of various provinces”, “Types of wonderful bridges of various provinces”, and little -known works.
From this book you will learn:
• Why in many works of the hokusai a wave motive appears,
• What happened to the hokusay after lightning hit it,
• What is it “Manga” Hokusai,
• Who was one of the Hokusai daughters and how her fate was,
• How did the relationship between her daughter and her famous father develop,
• Why is Mount Fuji and why it is red ,
• How Hokusai influenced world art.
The book "Hatsusika Hokusai" is designed for the widest circle of art lovers.
A magnificent layout, many colorful illustrations, coated paper - this album has everything to enjoy it again and again!