The artwork for today

I'm happy to share with you several images of my work of art made today. In the foreground you can see the black Chinese ink (ink-stick) melted in the ink stone. Also, there is a close-up of the red ink that I used for this Asian blossom branchlet.

The Great Wave of Kanagawa Hokusai

I was searching information and images about street art the other day, and I discovered "The grate wave" of Hokusai like a graffiti on a house wall.
Then I started a research about how Hokusai was a source of inspiration and I understood that this (Hokusai's famous view of Mount Fuji) work is an icon of Japan and people use that image like a symbol from graffiti to shoe soles design, food, architecture and tattoos.

Above you can see my composition of a geisha, dressed in a  kimono decorated with a great wave pattern inspiration.

The artists used the Asian inspirational subject to develop at their turn works of art in photography or scenography.

In 2011 Tim Walker, a British fashion photographer, staged  extravagant and romantic motifs, characteristic for his style, and rebuilt the Hokusai's Grate Wave in three dimensions.

And you can also see the “Wave” of the french artist, Bernard Pras.  He reproduced Hokusai’s work with bird and animal figures, hands, hoses, button like things. Amazingly, it looks like a piece of picture but it is actually an installation collage.

 
For sure those are just some examples of the woodblock print reproduction, and it will always be a (source of inspiration for us) landmark  for our inspiration.