Joint international project with the British Museum “Hokusai - Beyond the Great Wave”
Abeno Harukas Art Museum
© The Trustees of the British Museum. Acquired with the assistance of the Art Fund
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This exhibition focuses on the last thirty years of Japan’s most renowned artist’s, Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849), career from around 1820 to 1849. It features a broad selection of works - from the iconic print ‘Great Wave’ of c. 1831, to sublime painted works done right up to his death at the age of 90. The exhibition examines Hokusai’s personal beliefs through major paintings, drawings, woodblock prints and illustrated books – many never seen before in the UK. Hokusai continued to use landscape and wave imagery as a major subject during his later years, but his interest in nature, in exploring the mutability and minutiae of all phenomena in his art, was increasingly tied to a spiritual quest.
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Schedule
from October 06, 2017 at 10:00 to November 19, 2017 at 20:00
Closed on Oct.10 (Tue), Oct.16 (Mon), Oct.23 (Mon), Oct.30 (Mon), Oct.31 (Tue).