“Hokusai’s Waterfalls,” from the series: A Hundred Shades of Ink of Edo
Paul Binnie Scottish
Not on view
Binnie integrates three different compositions from the series A Journey to the Waterfalls in All the Provinces, designed about 1832 by the famous artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849), including “Amida Waterfall on the Kisokaidō Road.” Binnie removed the yellow-green hills and bluffs that surround the falls in Hokusai’s original and kept just the Prussian blue surroundings derived from “Horse-Washing Falls” and “Kirifuri Waterfall.” The artist’s barrel-shaped seal is a playful allusion to the Western trope of plunging over a waterfall in a barrel.
This image cannot be enlarged, viewed at full screen, or downloaded.
