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I am having a surprisingly hard time finding Hokusai's exercises on tesselations. Has search become really this bad ! Anyway wanted to show his sketch of a bi
by srean 6mo ago
I am having a surprisingly hard time finding Hokusai's exercises on tesselations.
Has search become really this bad !
Anyway wanted to show his sketch of a bird behind chicken wire fence/cage. Similar birds here
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47901702 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47901702
- abetusk 6mo agoThe best I could find were these: https://archive.org/details/hokusaiimayoyhi00kats/page/5/mode/thumb https://archive.org/details/hokusaiimayoyhi00kats/page/5/mod... https://archive.org/details/imayoykushikisev1kats/page/19/mode/thumb https://archive.org/details/imayoykushikisev1kats/page/19/mo... Are you sure you're remembering right? Here's archive's list of Hokusai books: https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Katsushika%2C+Hokusai%2C+1760-1849%22&and%5B%5D=year%3A%5B1600+TO+1927%5D https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Katsushika%2C+...
- srean 6mo agoThanks for the links. There are one or two in common with what I had in mind. I suppose those weren't his 'published' works but personal studies in geometry and tiling.
- kevin_thibedeau 6mo agoThe dead web makes things hard to find: https://www.rawpixel.com/image/7660768/image-art-vintage-public-domain https://www.rawpixel.com/image/7660768/image-art-vintage-pub...
- srean 6mo agoOh nice. I had not seen this before but it fits the description very well -- birds and tiling patterns. The art work that I had in my had a swallow or a sparrow swooping down, looked at through chicken wire grid.
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