Artist field note

Katsushika Hokusai

The world is never still.

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Hokusai Manga by Katsushika Hokusai
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Hokusai Manga

1814-1878

Thousands of observations transform bodies, animals, weather and work into an encyclopaedia of movement.

The five in one idea

Hokusai gave fleeting natural forces a graphic structure powerful enough to travel across cultures and centuries.