""I wanted to recreate the exact moment when passersby are caught in the rain," the Spain-based artist Sergio García Sánchez said about his Central Park cover for the November 10, 2025, issue."
"Hiroshige's dramatic composition contrasting nature and civilization creates a sense of movement and immediacy, and sends a shiver down the viewer's spine-a feeling that García Sánchez also tried to capture."
Sergio García Sánchez recreated a rain-soaked Central Park scene for a November 10, 2025 cover, capturing passersby caught in sudden rain. The work draws direct inspiration from Utagawa Hiroshige's 1857 ukiyo-e 'Sudden Shower Over Shin-Ōhashi Bridge and Atake,' a piece acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1918. The original's dramatic juxtaposition of nature and urban elements generates movement and immediacy. The composition's tension and atmospheric force evoke a visceral shiver in viewers, an emotional response that Sergio García Sánchez deliberately sought to evoke in his reinterpretation.
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