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Katsushika Hokusai: Lightnings below the Summit (from Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji c1830). Imagine the cultural impact of prints like this - the intense colours, the neo-abstraction, the flattened perspective, the mass of colour-shapes, the stylisation of the cloud-scape, even the cryptic signature of the artist - all radically alien to the European artist.
Aubrey Beardsley: cover design (trial proof) for The Yellow Book magazine 1894. Note Beardsley’s use of space and colour mass - and the stylised detail of candle smoke...