We’re easily convinced of the reality of 2D images – as when early audiences panicked as the Lumières’ train ran at them in a movie. How has our exposure to pictures changed, though?
Hokusai
This tiny island within easy reach of Tokyo is dedicated to the goddess of music and entertainment. Here it’s shown in ukiyo-e woodblock prints and paintings.
When did spiders and their webs first start appearing as motifs in paintings and prints? Who was the inspiration for Spider-Man?
People and the props which they carry can readily show the effects of the wind. Some brilliant examples illustrate this well.
Japanese woodblock prints are usually termed ukiyo-e, but ukiyo originally meant ‘this world of sorrow and grief’. How did they get their name?
Why was Vermeer forgotten, or van Gogh ignored, or Western-style painting in Japan suppressed?
How a small group of Dutch merchants were able to bring Western influence to Japanese painting during the Edo period.
There is already a substantial queue of organisations waiting to know how to create intensely viral events, and how to control them.
The Eclectic Light Company 