hokusai dragons

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

he was sometimes commissioned to paint dragons ... and he may have seen the dragon as expressing an aspect of his own character ... 

 

MASKS ... PART 13 ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

... to be continued, as & whenever ...

 

whirlpools by the masters, HIROSHIGE and HOKUSAI ... N.B. people tend to forget the importance of the master-block-cutters and the printers who processed the artists' drawings ... and the paper-makers, and the bookbinders ... and the people who made the artists' brushes ... etc, etc

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Hiroshige,  Whirlpools at Awa, 1857

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/45025

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

hiroshige, Whirlpool at Naruto in Awa Province,  1853

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/53783

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hokusai,  Mountains and Water,  Naruto Whirlpool,  1817

https://collections.artsmia.org/art/65613/whirlpool-at-awa-katsushika-hokusai

HORST P. HORST ... his fashion photographs of women were so perfectly perfectionist ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_P._Horst

 

... and he photographed women so "intensely" that it never occured to me that he was gay ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 to be continued, as & when ...

 

a little scrapbook of thunder and lightning

twice ... on flights to spain ... i've encountered lightning

the first time, on a late flight, an ashen faced young woman in a polo shirt & johdpurs sat next to me and began to shake before the plane had even left the ground ... she'd never flown before ... as we made the long glide towards malaga the plane skimmed a hilltop town just as a storm began ... in the first flash, i saw the spaniards' washing on the lines

the second flight was in daylight, to madrid ... just as we were about to start the long turn at the west of the city, captain was told to wait because the runways were awash in a sudden storm ... we went into a holding stack, circling above segovia and the mountains to the west of madrid ... we flew in and out of enormous clouds which were sometimes illuminated with diffuse lightning ... between the clouds were vast chasms filled with daylight, but the clouds themselves contained the deepest shade of GLOOM

( Hmmm ! ... I wonder if any paint companies mix a shade called GLOOM ? ) 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

hokusai

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

a japanese god of thunder

 

 

 

 

chen rong ... the nine dragons

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

laura knight

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

mother nature in switzerland

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_2020-3015-81?selectedImageId=1613746637

texas, 2025

... to be continued as & whenever ...