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Saturday, October 29, 2005

Pretty new mantel picture

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We have a new Asian print over the mantel now to match the samurai sword and Asian candlestick holders :-). It's Katsushika Hokusai's The Great Wave Off Kanagawa. Here's a description of the print:

"This is a seascape with Mt. Fuji. The waves form a frame through which we see Mt. Fuji. Hokusai loved to depict water in motion: the foam of the wave is breaking into claws which grasp for the fishermen. The large wave forms a massive yin to the yang of empty space under it. The impending crash of water brings tension into the painting. In the foreground, a small peaked wave forms a miniature Mt. Fuji, which is reflected hundreds of miles away in the enormous Mt. Fuji, which shrinks through perspective; the wavelet is larger than the mountain. Instead of shoguns and nobility, we see tiny fishermen huddled into their sleek crafts; they slide down a seamount and dive straight into the wave to make it to the other side. The yin violence of Nature is dismissed by the yang relaxed confidence of expert fishermen. Oddly, though it's a sea storm, the sun is shining." (http://www.andreas.com/hokusai/)


It looks great over the mantel. And Steve did a WONDERFUL job with the frame :-). He made it himself--cut the wood, painted it, put it together :-). It works with the print very nicely :-).


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