river tama and mount fuji hokusai

river tama and mount fuji hokusaiHokusai's painting "River Tama and Mount Fuji" illustrates the very essence of ukiyo e, a genre of Japanese art depicting the floating world. The landscape is dominated by a soothing serenity: in the foreground, the banks of the river Tama, reflecting the shades of the sky while guiding our eyes towards Mount Fuji in the background, majestic and distant. Hokusai, the undisputed master of ukiyo e, used contrasts and harmonious colours to emphasise the

usually a source of reunion and entertainment

She has an inviting posture in a teeming vegetation

The shapes intertwine and overlap

Kandinsky mastered abstraction by playing with the interactions between shapes

Yet reduced to a subordinate performing his last tasks

evoking the warmth of the interior light mixed with the coldness of the nighttime environment

form natural arches

but a source of inspiration for the soul

testifying to the life and dynamism of Argenteuil at the time

The work invites the viewer to reflect on the relationship between the indoor and outdoor environment and how natural light shapes our perception of time and space

sparkles and shines under a shower of confetti

Van Gogh paints himself with brutal honesty