THE FIGARO SELECTION – Meditation for traveling in Asia, timeless journey in the Italian islands, painting of yesterday and today, metamorphosis of Notre-Dame, beauty of the body, riddles around masterpieces… At Christmas, culture takes its comfortable.
“Hokusai. “Manga”: daily life in Kyoto captured from life
The eye and the notebook: Hokusai doesn't miss a beat. The artist crosses the streets of Kyoto and the landscapes of Japan with his gaze focused on nature and neighborhood scenes, and records them one after the other. This is his “manga”, a picturesque collection, full of sap and humor into which beaches of pure contemplation slip. At his death, there were fifteen volumes and 4000 drawings in black, white and pink. Here they are collected in two large volumes published in a box set by Hazan, and commented on page by page. We follow the occupations of the men seized at random: one sells toys, another weighs gold and silver coins, yet another performs magic tricks. A kind of plump pig sprawled against a large bag is identified as Hotei, the popular god of good fortune and happiness.
Here are pages like a dictionary of everyday life, extremely practical for deciphering the prints. Another set…
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