A Mild Breeze on a Fine Day (Gaifu kaisei), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)"
Details
- Palette
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- Medium
- Color woodblock print; oban
- Dimensions
- 25.7 × 37.5 cm (10 1/16 × 14 3/4 in.)
- Origin
- Japan
- Department
- Arts of Asia
- Holding institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Image provider
- art-institute-chicago
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Credit
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
Art Genome Taxonomy
8 tags
Subject Matter
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Landscapes Both · 99%
The image is dominated by Mount Fuji and surrounding sky, clouds, and forest, and the catalog lists the subject as landscapes.
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Nature Visual · 98%
Mount Fuji, a forested slope, sky, clouds, and snow are presented as elements of the natural world.
Visual Qualities
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Angular Visual · 95%
The mountain has a strongly angular triangular contour, reinforced by the diagonal boundary between the mountain and forested foreground.
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Flatness Visual · 91%
Broad areas of relatively uniform printed color, sharply bounded shapes, and flattened spatial treatment give the composition a distinctly flat graphic quality.
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Patterns Visual · 97%
Repeated short marks describe the forest, while recurring horizontal cloud bands create a patterned rhythm across the sky.
Medium and Techniques
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Woodcut and Linocut Metadata · 99%
The catalog identifies the medium as a color woodblock print.
Time Periods
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19th Century Art Metadata · 99%
The catalog dates the work to c. 1830/33, placing it in the nineteenth century.
Geographic Regions
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Japanese Art Metadata · 99%
The catalog identifies the artist as Japanese, gives Japan as the place of origin, and lists the style as Japanese culture or style.
Source & rights
Katsushika Hokusai. A Mild Breeze on a Fine Day (Gaifu kaisei), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)". The Art Institute of Chicago.