Description
Katsushika Hokusai ( 葛飾北斎?): 1760 - 1849.
Fresh wind on a clear morning ( 凱風快晴) also known as Clear Weather Fuji or Red Fuji, is one of the works of Thirty -six Views of Mount Fuji ( 富嶽三十六景). It is actually a series of forty-six prints made by Hokusai. They represent Mount Fuji according to the seasons and from different places. This series is very famous today because it marks the integration of Japanese tradition into Western modes of representation (in particular it uses the principles of Western perspective).
During his 70-year career, he produced a considerable body of work of some 3,000 color prints, illustrations for more than 200 books, more than 30,000 drawings and more than 1,000 paintings, earning him the nickname “Old Madman for Drawing”.
The discovery of his prints will constitute a major aesthetic shock for European artists at the end of the 19th century. His work influenced many French and even European artists from the Japonism artistic movement.
