Hiroshige's Woodblock Print of a Sudden Shower over Ohashi and Atake, from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
The ideals and concepts of Chinese art today rely on the foundation of the country’s rich history and more importantly on two early artists, Hokusai and Hiroshige. Each of these artists has a different perspective in the way they view art and its design. Hiroshige views art as a replica of the environs that surround an individual. For Hiroshige, art should be a virtual display of our surroundings, and it should capture in detail every aspect that comprises of the environment. In order to translate the feeling of reality resorts to employing different colors in his artwork. Hokusai on the other ...
