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☆ How Hokusai’s Art Crashed Over the Modern World
  + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Jason Farago | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
One of the most influential figures in European modern culture never set foot in Europe. But a few years after his death in 1849, when the “black ships” of Commodore Matthew Perry sailed into what’s now Tokyo Bay, Japan’s markets were forcibly opened, and Hokusai’s woodblocks started to flutter over the ocean. In France, in Britain, and soon in America, a whole new kind of art would emerge: born in Tokyo, spanning the whole world. Beautiful and bloated by turns (but well worth the trip), it makes ample use of the MFA’s unparalleled collection of Japanese art. Here you will see more than 100 of Hokusai’s prints, paintings and manga — literally “whimsical sketches” of bathers and courtesans and birds and beasts, which Hokusai published in 15 best-selling volumes.
Persons: Katsushika, Matthew Perry, Hokusai’s woodblocks, Hokusai Organizations: Mount Fuji, Museum of Fine Arts, Mount, Fuji Locations: Europe, Edo Japan, what’s, Tokyo, France, Britain, America, Boston, American
☆ Exploring Nature in Japanese Prints
  + stars: | 2022-11-19 | by ( Susan Delson | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
Last year a print of “Under the Wave off Kanagawa,” the near-ubiquitous image by Katsushika Hokusai better known as “The Great Wave,” sold at auction for $1.6 million, a record for the artist. In the 1830s, when it was made, a woodblock print in Edo—now Tokyo—cost roughly the same as a bowl of noodles. Produced in large quantities for a popular market, these affordable images brought the country’s landmarks and natural wonders to audiences eager to experience them through artists’ eyes. “Human / Nature: 150 Years of Japanese Landscape Prints,” a new exhibition opening on Dec. 3 at the Portland Art Museum in Oregon, presents some 70 of these works, from 19th-century classics like “The Great Wave” to late-20th-century prints by artists in Japan and the Pacific Northwest. “Human imagination has been shaped by nature and the landscape,” says exhibition curator Helen Swift.
☆ The Hidden Image Descriptions Making the Internet Accessible
  + stars: | 2022-02-18 | by ( Meg Miller | Ilaria Parogni | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +15 min
surfacing The Hidden Image Descriptions Making the Internet AccessibleThree different alt text examples over a blank box. Alt text examples from Wirecutter, The New York Times’s product recommendation service; Alt Text Chrome Extension; and Microsoft Word. Fleet, the tech educator, who is blind, posts on Twitter about alt text and agrees that these efforts are making a difference. Alt Text Reminder, another Twitter bot, notifies followers when they have tweeted an image without alt text. Folkens of CloudSight said that his company is careful not to use racial identifiers in the alt text it generates.
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