MuVIM. Quevedo, 10
MuVIM is betting on Japanese art again, in this case the great work of the great landscape painter Hiroshige Katsushika, The fifty-three seasons of the Tôkai-dô (1833-1834). It is about the full series of 55 woodcuts of landscape engravings that he made traveling the Tôkai-dô, an ancient route that connected the cities of Edo (present-day Tokyo) i Keishi (Kyoto). They are works made in the 19th century but of such absolute modernity that they became a genre of their own, l’ukiyo-e ("images of the floating world", in reference to pleasant aspects of life) and decisively influenced impressionist painters such as Van Gogh, Manet o Toulouse-Lautrec. As appendix to the sample, La Gran ona de Kanagawa del seu coetani Hokusai Katsushika, which has come to become an icon of whatsapp. This is where the influence of Japanese art comes to the West. S.M.
