You can't but truly admire Elon Musk and his staff at Tesla for what they have achieved so far and express every confidence in them resolving these challenges.Switching the fuel has been on the research agenda since the 1950es but it is still very difficult, in spite of millions of people dying from the health issues associated with auto carbon exhaust every year.Tesla is like an Apple, but in a sedate traditional industry that is full of roadblocks to development.W...

Roma or Gypsies have fascinated artists for centuries. The portrayal of Romanies have not always been favourable. It developed from poster like warnings over romantic props in landscape painting over to deeper ethnographic depictions. Some modern artists show deep compassion and love while others again veer to using them as props for their own purposes.On 15-17 May 2023 there was the third World Roma Congress in Berlin in Germany. The purpose was to hear complaints and draft a new ...

Hokusai's 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō 1804 Vertical is something completely different from his 1801 and 1802 series and from the 1804 horizontal.It is different from his famous 36 Views of Mt Fuji 1832, which are sublime artistic expressions distilling a long life's work.This series shows his development of the themes based on the two first series, 1801 and 1802, and a transition to his 1804 horizontal series, which again is a precursor to his sublime 36 Views of Mt Fuji.

Viewing Osaka through the series 100 Views of Naniwa (Osaka) is an amazing experience. It is a well executed repetition over a format by Hiroshige. Some add a "Famous" to the title.This series is by three artists, Utagawa Yoshitaki, Utagawa Kunikazu and Nansuitei Yoshiyuki.Hiroshige I created his revolutionary series 100 Famous Views of Edo over three years, 1856-1859.This led to the publishing of copy series 100 Views of Naniwa (Osaka) by other artists. The book he...

Nikolay Vladislavovich Bessonov was born in 1962 and died in 2013 in Moscow. He has a higher art education (MVHPU).Bessonov painted wonderful, romantic paintings of Roma (Gypsies). Roma in art is a different story altogether, a subject we hope to take up later.Another line of his paintings was for a book about Medieval witch persecution, with gruesome pictures of mostly beautiful women coming into trouble.The authors came into contact with Bessonov in connection wit...

Hokusai's 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō 1806 Horizontal is the last known full Tokaido series by Hokusai.It is different from his famous 36 Views of Mt Fuji, which are sublime artistic expressions distilling a long life's work.It is different from much of Hokusai's other well known work, like his 100 Views of Mt Fuji. But in that series Hokusai still retained a lot of the humor and the caricature found here.It is different from the many other well known 53 Stations of ...

The 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō by Utagawa Kunisada (1786 – 12 January 1865) is both a tour through the landscape of Japan and a cultural introduction.But first of all it is a fashion magazine about beautiful, young and stylish Japanese women in 1838. These young beauties were one of the subjects Kunisada excelled in.Kunisada show beautiful girls from all walks of life, explorers and adventurers, musicians, theater stars, imperial concubines, country girls, business women. T...

The Kichizō Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road, Gojūsan tsugi no uchi, 東海道六五十三次之内 is another very original of Hiroshige's huge Tokaido Road production.Until the introduction of "Berlin Blue", an artificial print color, the Japanese ukiyo-e printers used only natural colors and drak shade was difficult and expensive to make. Hiroshige made full use of the new color here.The first thing you notice about this series is that the prints are often a bit dark. This is becaus...

Utagawa Hiroshige's two Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series, 1852 and 1858, are both a copy act and in themselves innovative artistic endeavors.Katsushika Hokusai published his famous series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji in 1830-1832 and it influenced Hiroshige tremendously to do his own series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series 1852, and 1858, which we deal with here.Hiroshige shifted to the vertical portrait format with novel and interesting results. It is in the sa...

This book shows the 10 Famous Views Of Naniwa (Osaka) by Hiroshige published in 1834. They are unusual in that they show markets with merchants negotiating.The 8 Views is a Chinese artistic and literary theme developed already in the 10th century and then transposed into Japanese culture, where it developed its own independent expression.Print artist Utagawa Hiroshige as many other Japanese artists took up the issue of 8 Views of Ōmi and again as other Japanese artists he e...

The reader may already be acquainted with the Hoeidō edition (1833-34) of The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō. This was the most popular print series ever made in Japan.Hiroshige did two other editions, the Kyōka edition (abt 1838) and the Reisho (abt 1840) which is the focus in this book. We include thumbnails from the two other editions for comparison. It is a total view!There were 53 post stations along this important road, apart from the start and terminus, in all 5...

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