Monet's Garden Illustration - How to evaluate the Japanese ukiyo-e master Katsushika Hokusai?

The world is missing you

This is a book and something I would like to say to myself. It's inspirational. Just like the tweet I sent. It goes like this: Make yourself irreplaceable, it's the law of society. It's true that in a company, for example, if you're not indispensable to the company, then when you find someone better than you, that means you're out of the game. So even if you don't think the world needs you. You have to work hard to make it happen. Everyone in this world is unique, play your part.

Most of my first impressions of a book are because of the title. Then I start looking at the title page, the table of contents, the layout of the book and so on. So I think it is very important to choose the title of a book. A good title can attract readers' attention. Of course not every reader can be infected by the same book. I believe that a good book has the power to infect every reader.

When I first saw this book, I didn't want to take it home from the library and read it. I was still like a little kid who loved the illustrations and the book. When I first saw the book, I opened it and put it back where it belonged. Until I wandered back and forth between the rows of bookshelves and saw this book again. I re-read it again. I finally decided to take it home and read it slowly, still because of the illustrations and the words underneath the pictures. I saw one of the pages of the picture underneath a small paragraph written similar to a fairy tale. That's why I decided to take it home and read it.

The book begins with a description of what the author's mother was like, and how the author started her own business under her mother's guidance. When you decide to do something, you have to take it seriously. You have to be committed to it. Put all your attention into it. You can't be satisfied with the small achievements in front of you, you have to look far ahead, look at the future, and have a plan to implement it. And then it talks about the author having a sister. The picture that accompanied the first paragraph I read was about a dream the author had. The place of the dream was the Monet's garden, which he visited during the day. In the dream, Monet's garden loses its usual colorfulness and gives life to the puppets. He and his sister become the saviors of this garden that has lost its colors. This is probably her sister's world. In the author's eyes, the world of children is always so innocent and colorful, and even the usually inanimate ones come to life in the world of children.

The picture in the book has a text that impressed me. The title of the text is "The Growth Rate of Love" and underneath it is a paragraph that reads, "When the distance between two people gets farther and farther, problems will slowly appear. Someone has to stop and wait, or someone has to work harder to catch up. The same rate, will love longer." The book comes with a bookmark, and the location of the bookmark stays on this page. So when you turn the page, you'll find this quote. I agree with this passage, and I think it makes sense. It's like drinking a bowl of chicken soup full of nutrients.

If in a relationship, one party is not willing to spend time waiting, the other party is not thinking of progress to catch up with each other's footsteps. It's a good thing that you're not a big fan of the way things are done. Everyone is so busy, it is impossible to spare time to wait for you in the same place. Only two people gap is not big or in the same starting line when you can hand in hand to go forward. I saw the microblogging on the sentence impressed "husband husband, within a ten feet is husband" in a ten feet away can still be called husband? How much distance is appropriate between a couple and a husband? More than a certain distance, you have to walk so many steps to be with each other again, if you want to last, you have to walk more steps and each other stand in the same starting line. The only way to do this is to walk hand in hand with each other.

As the name suggests, when you see the name, you know that this is a store that can make people lose their memory and forget that they don't want to remember certain memories. This is one of the articles in the book, and it is also one of the articles that made me interested in the transition of the book. It was a novelty. Mostly because it was just the kind of cake I needed to forget. I wondered if the owner of the store also wanted to forget some sad and painful things through this oblivion cake, or if the owner had no worries and was full of positive energy all day long, and didn't want to see everyone so sad. I hope customers come in with sadness and leave with happiness. This is just my guess, as for the owner of the store is how a book is not known.

Everyone wants to forget something more or less. So also want to go to the author wrote about this store to put. I would like to, but I don't know if it exists in this world. My memory is so bad, but I always remember you. You see how much I like you, but it's not enough for me to like you. I have forgotten so many things but I can't forget the things I want to forget. What is love in the world? I don't know. There are always so many people who are trapped by love. There are always so many people who are crazy about someone, but the other person does not like it at all. Obviously this is still a lot of people wishful thinking like. I'm not sure if you're going to be able to get a good deal on this.

Anyway, if there is such a thing as a cake of forgetfulness, I think it's a good idea to forget the sad things. But isn't that the kind of life that comes with a lack. Even if those memories were once so good. It's these memories that have harmed so many people who are still in the illusion of goodness and don't want to wake up.

The world is so big that it is not necessary for you, the earth is still spinning without you. However, the world is not without you, everyone is a unique craft, there is no copy or fake. Everyone is the master of the world. You can't rule the world, but you can rule your own world.

What do you think of the Japanese master of ukiyo-e, Katsushika Hokusai?

Katsushika Hokusai is one of Japan's most famous ukiyo-e masters, and the ukiyo-e he left behind has been marveled at and praised by countless people

, and many elements of his work have been used by those who came after him in many of their works. Katsushika Hokusai may not be familiar with his name alone, but his works are well known. His works of art, such as "Kanagawa Surf" and "Thirty-six Views of Toyako," have made a colorful contribution to the history of culture and art in the world.

The fact that Life magazine named him one of the "100 Millennial Celebrities of the World" in the second millennium is a testament to his status.

The ukiyo-e painting "Kanagawa Surfing Sato" is a masterpiece by Katsushika Hokusai, but it is a work that shows the aesthetics and literary flavor of the work in the best possible way. The work has even been called an iconic work of art, so that when people see it, they naturally associate it with Japan, which is perhaps what Katsushika wanted to show in his personal interpretation of the "elegance of the East".

Katsushika Hokusai was the most important painter of the Edo period, and even had a profound influence on the circle of European painting at that time, Van Gogh, Manet, Gauguin and other Impressionist masters have copied his paintings, and Monet completed at the age of twenty-seven years old, called the "Gardens of St. Adèlez," is the work of homage to Katsushika Hokusai.

It can be said that Katsushika Hokusai's paintings have the most basic ideological support for the development and growth of Impressionism, without which the art of Impressionist painting would not have appeared.

Katsushika Hokusai's love for Chinese elements was unprecedented. Influenced by the fact that Chinese elements dominated every aspect of Japan during the Edo period,

Katsushika Hokusai used Chinese elements in many of his paintings, and Katsushika relied on them as a medium for his creations.

The dragons in his paintings have the characteristics of the Song dynasty, but they also have the characteristics of the Song dynasty. His dragons are a reflection of those painted in the Song Dynasty, and his love of Chinese culture can be seen directly in his work, as he illustrated many of the country's novels, such as "Journey to the West in Pictures" and others.

The master who never married, but a generation because of a painting by the French art circle "closed"!

He is famous for "four daughters of Poitiers", "Portrait of Carolus Durand", "Maiden and Rose", "Mrs. Henry White" and "Vic Three Sisters" and so on.

Because he was of American descent, his name is written in the history of American painting.

But he also lived in London, where he was a member of the Royal Institute of Watercolorists and a Fellow of the Royal Scottish Academy of Fine Arts, and thus has a very important place in the history of British watercolor painting.

Sargent self-portrait

John Singer Sargent (John Singer Sargent, 1856-1925), the United States of America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the famous portrait painter.

He was passionate about the art of painting all his life, never married, ignored the world's glamor, and single-mindedly followed his own artistic path.

Sargent created about 900 oil paintings, more than 2,000 watercolors and countless charcoal sketches in his life, of which more than 400 portraits, another 600 to 700 hundred pieces, almost none of them are the same.

Sargent spent his life mainly in Europe.

He received numerous honors, including honorary degrees from Cambridge, Oxford, and Yale. In fact, he declined all but one of these honors, such as knighthood in 1907 and the presidency of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1918.

Sargent was born on January 12, 1856 in Florence.

His father was a prominent doctor in Philadelphia, USA, and his mother, the daughter of a wealthy Philadelphia leather merchant, was a watercolorist whose early travels in Europe led her to fall in love with Italy.

After her marriage, she persuaded her husband to give up his medical practice in the United States and traveled with her throughout Europe, leading a free life without a fixed residence. Sargent was born while living in Florence.

Benefiting from his mother's influence, Sargent loved painting from an early age, and at the age of 14 he entered the Florence Academy of Fine Arts.

In 1874, Sargent entered the école des Beaux-Arts to study painting.

Sargent met the French artist Paul César Eller, who introduced him to masters such as Edgar Degas, Claude Monet and James Abbott McNeill Whistler.

His early works were mainly influenced by the Impressionist style, and later he studied the style of the Spanish painter Velázquez, and Sargent's later portraits were greatly influenced by the paintings of Velázquez and Hals.

In Sargent's portraits, the long strokes made with thinner pigments can be seen in many places. Sargent's portraits are very subtle in their treatment of color and light.

John Singer Sargent: Carnations, Lilies and Roses

1885_Ji Trans Transit

The painting Carnations, Lilies and Roses is an oil painting by Sargent painted in 1885.

It is now in the collection of the Tate Gallery in London. The painting is one of his elaborate heirloom classics, depicting a child lighting a lantern among the flowers.

The most fascinating aspect of the painting is the rich and varied colors, which are pleasing to the eye. Although the emphasis is on color, the shapes of the flowers are visible, and the richness of the colors and the fragrance of the flowers blend together.

The painting depicts two children dressed in white illuminating paper lanterns during the day, with pink roses scattered in their garden, yellow carnations and tall white lilies behind them.

The painting is dominated by green foliage, and there are no horizontal or other horizontal lines to give a sense of depth.

The two subjects of the painting are friends of Sargent, the daughter of illustrator Frederick Barnard. Dolly, who is 11, and Polly, who is 7.

They were chosen as blondes, replacing Sargent's original model, Frances Davies, the 5-year-old daughter of Millet, the brunette Catherine.

The title comes from the popular song "Ye Shepherds Told Me" by Joseph Massinger.

It's a three-piece male-voice pastoral band that mentions Flora wearing "a wreath of flowers, a wreath of flowers, carnations, lilies, lilies, roses".

We see, in the poetic picture, two angelic little girls.

They are carefully hanging the lanterns on the branches of the flowers with their innocent dreams, and the lanterns give the flowers a warm glow, so that the delicate flowers become silent and noble, soft and pure.

The soft glow of the candlelight also casts a warm glow over the two children, reflecting the lively and healthy faces of the girls.

At this moment, man and nature are communicating with each other in this space of endless life.

When we stand behind the children, watching their innocence, we can feel that nature and nature, the heart and purity, man and the world, is so harmonious.

Sargent discovered the magic of evening light before the invention of color photography.

At twilight, as the sky darkens and the grass is covered in a lush blue, Japanese lanterns emit a warm red glow.

When the ratio of natural to artificial light is balanced, the flowers and the girl are bathed in this magical light, half cold, half warm, a delicate equilibrium.

This use of color is clearly impressionistic.

Sargent was not a member of the Impressionists, but he was very good at using light to express the multilayered connotations of color, and his works always have a wonderful poetry.

Sargent was an excellent portrait painter active in Europe and the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as well as an outstanding master of watercolor.

His watercolor portraits fully demonstrate his talent, with bright hues, highly refined brushwork, and clear facial expressions that portray the character of the person.

His portraits are vivid and lifelike, and his handling of light and form is beyond the reach of ordinary painters. He follows the needs of beauty and always keeps his technique fresh and fascinating.

Always, as a famous portrait painter active in Europe and America, Sargent, with a wealth of common sense and education, in and out of the upper class, for the celebrities and noblewomen painted many exquisite portraits, like waltz dancers spinning on the art dance floor.

His evocative forms, beautiful colors, skillful brushwork, and flamboyant style of painting brought him a great deal of wealth and prestige.

But in 1884, Sargent's portrait of Madame X was strongly criticized in France, and in a fit of rage, he left Paris and settled in London.

In the London countryside, he studied Monet's series of haystack paintings.

Inspired by Monet, he experimented with a new technique of coloring and depicting light, and he renewed his interest in watercolors by focusing on the expression of light and color in the lush greenery of the English countryside.

He later painted a mural for the Boston Public Library.

Sargent's portrait of Mrs. X

Sargent was also an extremely serious artist.

He emphasized the need for the artist to maintain a keen sense of observation, and to be bold enough to eliminate anything unnecessary in his treatment of the picture. At the same time, Sargent was often dissatisfied with his own work.

Particularly in his later years, despite the fact that his art was much appreciated, he did not care, and continued to search for it again and again.

When Sargent held a solo exhibition in New York in 1924, he was reluctant to even look at it, and on April 15, 1925, just three days before the ship left for Boston, Sargent died of a heart attack in his sleep in London at the age of sixty-nine.