Wave and boat with Mount Fuji by Utagawa Hiroshige HUGO Rendered in the measured style

Rendered in the measured style of classical botanical illustration

It is a painting about presence as much as decoration

and quietly absorbing

it became known as Hope II through its connection to an earlier painting of the same theme

Richter's Skyscraper layers photographic and graphic elements into a collage that interrogates how we picture the vertical city

Wave and boat with Mount Fuji by Utagawa Hiroshige HUGO Rendered in the measured styleWave and boat with Mount Fuji depicts the dramatic coastline at Satta in Suruga Province, where towering waves crash against rocky cliffs while Mount Fuji rises serenely in the distance. Created in 1858 as part of Hiroshiges vertical series Thirty six Views of Mount Fuji, the composition juxtaposes natures violence with its calm churning sea set against the mountains stillness. Pine trees cling to the steep cliff face, and a flock of plovers scatters