Available - Peter MacMillan
Peter MacMillan is a print artist, poet, translator and academic. His Thirty-Six New Views of Mount Fuji fine art prints take their starting point from Katsushika Hokusai’s Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, a series of color woodblock prints that depict Mount Fuji from thirty-six different perspectives. The prints draw upon Hokusai’s motifs and those of other Western and Japanese artists and juxtapose an idealized historical view of Mount Fuji and Japanese culture with the actual reality of contemporary society. The images constitute a social critique while simultaneously posing a series of questions related to sustainability in our society.
By comparing the often humorous and witty disparities between the original and the recomposed images, Seisai (MacMillan’s artistic name) invites viewers to examine the differences between traditional and contemporary Japanese culture. Edo-period Japan was actually a formidable consumer society, but it was also based on an impressive model of sustainability. By contrast, contemporary consumer society cares too little for sustainability, and its reckless use of the earth’s resources has been destroying our environment. The images are not just about Japan but rather the world in general.
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Peter MacMillan - Crane Fuji / 鶴富士
The crane is a symbol of longevity, thus here representing an image of sustainability. This is a work created to commemorate Fuji’s taking flight around the world as a World Heritage Site.
鶴は長寿の象徴であり、ここではサステナビリティのイメージとして描いています。世界文化遺産登録を記念し、これから世界へと飛び立ってゆく富士山の姿を重ねました。
Image - 48cm x 78cm | Acrylic Box Frame | mixed media | edition 20
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