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Hokusai didn't actually paint or carve most of his work; in fact he didn't even necessarily complete any of it himself. He would sketch it and an apprentice or
by throwawaaarrgh 4y ago
Hokusai didn't actually paint or carve most of his work; in fact he didn't even necessarily complete any of it himself. He would sketch it and an apprentice or other worker would fill in the details. Standard practice at the time
- Palomides 4y agotraditional ukiyo-e had a strong division of labor between the stages of production until the shin-hanga movement, and lots of western painters also had workshops of apprentices, I do think it gets popularly glossed over a lot still happens with modern artists like damien hirst
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- smcl 4y agoNot too different from Damien Hurst, then
- flandish 4y agoReally common practice for a lot of artists - iirc, people like Vermeer to Michelangelo to some Impressionists did it as well.
- bojo 4y agoSeems similar to modern day comic pencillers and inkers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inker
- Fricken 4y agoHe was an obsessive sketcher. Hokusai's Manga, a compendium of his sketches over a lifetime offer an anthropologically comprehensive observation of pre-modern Japanese life. You would be hard pressed to find as comprehensive an observation of any culture within a single body of work.