masculine wave hokusai

masculine wave hokusaiThe masculine counterpart to "Feminine Wave", this work by Katsushika Hokusai is striking in its energy and strength. The artist fixes through painting a fleeting moment, a liquid movement impossible to stop. The flows mix but also oppose each other, by different trajectories and by the contrasts of their respective colors. Evoking combat and vigor, this wave with a warlike temperament embodies the typically masculine spiritual essence, as it was

The dynamic composition of the painting is accentuated by the movement of the clouds in the swirling sky

hidden under a huge golden sheet that gives a dimension of eternity to the couple that it encloses and protects: on the side of the man

the Eiffel Tower emerges from the foreground and towers over the city

Piet Mondrian's Composition A is distinguished by its primary colors framed by black lines that are so familiar to us today

The blue and white are clearly separated

with its wings spread

Jacques-Louis David painted five versions of this portrait

his index finger bent: God gives

It is part of the "series of ports of France" that Signac traveled for over three years

The combination of individual touches of paint creates shimmering light effects

the social structure of the species

expressing the beauty and vitality of nature