{"id":25933,"date":"2017-07-13T17:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T17:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/?p=25933"},"modified":"2017-07-11T20:38:30","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T20:38:30","slug":"hokusai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/07\/13\/hokusai\/","title":{"rendered":"Hokusai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I married an artist. I am not an artist. Unless you class eyeliner as art and then I&#8217;m a genius.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In attempt to be arty I took the beloved to see a documentary on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.katsushikahokusai.org\/\">Hokusai<\/a>, the Japanese artist best known for the Great Wave at FACT. I was slightly sneery as Japanese art has never been my thing. The documentary confirmed that I&#8217;m an eejit and know nothing. His work stretches across forms and genres and he was obsessed by the act of creating. In his 60&#8217;s he thought he may be great in his 80&#8217;s or 90&#8217;s. Not only is the work beautiful but his attitude was breathtakingly inspiring.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A trip to see the exhibition was thwarted by travel issues but you can still find the documentary on the BBC <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b08w9lv6\">iPlayer<\/a>. Watch it and enjoy the beauty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I married an artist. I am not an artist. Unless you class eyeliner as art and then I&#8217;m a genius. &nbsp; In attempt to be arty I took the beloved to see a documentary on Hokusai, the Japanese artist best known for the Great Wave at FACT. I was slightly sneery as Japanese art has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[86],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/WAVE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25933"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25933"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25991,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25933\/revisions\/25991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}