Art enriches every soul it touches. It can bring joy to its viewers and infuse a sense of positivity and delight around it. One of the primary reasons for decorating homes with beautiful paintings is to invite the same sense of cheer and optimism in the place’s inhabitants. You can turn your house into an aesthetic hotspot with alluring wall art prints. They will enliven any room and also please your artistic senses.

If you are a connoisseur of Chinese painting, you must have come across the name of Katsushika Hokusai- the famous Japanese artist. His works of art are truly admirable and make up for spectacular centrepieces at houses! Read on to know him a little better!

Katsushika Hokusai- The Artist At A Glance

The Great Wave off Kanagawa has presently become a subject for several pop-art artists. You will find prints of the painting on notebook covers, coffee mugs, dresses, and even bags! It stands as a brilliant example of Chinese painting- and it was created by none other than Katsushika Hokusai.

His masterpieces have enticed generations of people and still continue to do so, but the details of his birth are quite blurry. It is often said, he was born on 31st October 1760 to one Nakajima Ise- a mirror-maker for the military dictators of Japan. Hokusai learned the basics of art from his father and began painting by the age of six! Hokusai has had the highest number of pseudonyms and often altered them with changes in his artistic style.

After working at a lending library at age 12 and as an apprentice to a woodworker at 14, Hokusai finally started learning from Katsukawa Shunshō- a famed Ukiyo-e artist at 18. Ukiyo-e was a genre of art focused on portraits of courtesans and ‘kabuki’ actors in Japan. During his study under Shunshō, Hokusai married his first wife, who died early and later his second wife. He was left with two sons and three daughters, among whom his youngest daughter Ōi grew up to become an artist herself and assisted her father as well.

Once Hokusai became adept at the techniques of Ukiyo-e art, he gradually shifted the subject of his paintings from courtesans to the natural landscape around him. And thus, we now are familiar with Katsushika Hokusai prints like Fine Wind, Clear Morning (1832), A View of Mount Fuji Across Lake Suwa (1830-1832), Dawn at Isawa in Kai Province, and others.

Conclusion

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