[HN Gopher] Late Hokusai: Thought, technique, society
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Late Hokusai: Thought, technique, society
Author : rntn
Score : 30 points
Date : 2023-01-16 17:50 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| akolbe wrote:
| One of Hokusai's last works was Tiger in the Snow:
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| https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/Hokusai%...
| throwawaaarrgh wrote:
| Hokusai didn't actually paint or carve most of his work; in fact
| he didn't even necessarily complete any of it himself. He would
| sketch it and an apprentice or other worker would fill in the
| details. Standard practice at the time
| flandish wrote:
| Really common practice for a lot of artists - iirc, people like
| Vermeer to Michelangelo to some Impressionists did it as well.
| smcl wrote:
| Not too different from Damien Hurst, then
| bojo wrote:
| Seems similar to modern day comic pencillers and inkers.
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| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inker
| Palomides wrote:
| traditional ukiyo-e had a strong division of labor between the
| stages of production until the shin-hanga movement, and lots of
| western painters also had workshops of apprentices, I do think
| it gets popularly glossed over a lot
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| still happens with modern artists like damien hirst
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| boppo1 wrote:
| Hokusai drew the original tentacle porn: dream of the fisherman's
| wife.
| drbeast wrote:
| Hahaha this. I remember watching a video where an art critic
| tries to explain this work without saying "it's early erotica".
| Was it sister Wendy Beckett? Drawing a blank, this was in
| middle school art history class.
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