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Hokusai cleverly played with perspective to make Japan's grandest mountain appear as a small triangular mound within the hollow of the cresting wave. The artist became famous for his landscapes created using a palette of indigo and imported Prussian blue. Listen to experts illuminate this artwork's story Buy a print Custom framed to suit your space
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Katsushika Hokusai, Under the Wave off Kanagawa ( Kanagawa oki nami ura ), also known as The Great Wave, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji ( Fugaku sanjƫrokkei ), c. 1830-32, polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper, 10 1/8 x 14 15 /16 inches; 25.7 x 37.9 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
Hokusai and his famous series ThirtySix Views of Mount Fuji
Katsushika Hokusai was in his 70s by the time he created his best-known image, the majestic The Great Wave off Kanagawa. Often known simply as The Great Wave, the popular print not only.
Katsushika Hokusai "The Great Wave Off Kanagawa" ( 18301833). Yizzam
The Great Wave off Kanagawa (ç„ć„ć·æČæ”ȘèŁ, Kanagawa-oki nami ura, "Under a wave off Kanagawa"), also known as The Great Wave or simply The Wave, is a woodblock print by the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai.It was published sometime between 1829 and 1833 in the late Edo period as the first print in Hokusai's series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji.
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Katsushika Hokusai, Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjƫrokkei), c. 1830-32, polychrome woodblock print, ink and color on paper, 25.7 x 37.9 cm ( The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
'Great Wave' Artist Katsushika Hokusai Gets Solo Exhibition at the
The energetic and imposing picture The Great Wave (Kanagawa Oki Nami Ura) is the best-known work by Japanese artist Hokusai Katsushika (1760-1849), one of the greatest Japanese woodblock printmakers, painters and book illustrators.
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Seeing Triple: The Great Wave. by Hokusai. In 1830 at the age of 70, Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai began a series of woodblock prints. At the time, the Tokugawa government's increasing political and moral censorship led artists to focus their work on landscapes, rather than figures, and Hokusai chose to celebrate the ancient pilgrimage.
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Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), Daoist master Zhou Sheng ascends a cloud-ladder to the moon, from 'Banmotsu ehon daizen' (The Great Picture Book of Everything). Block-ready drawing, ink on paper, Japan, 1820s-40s. Purchase funded by the Theresia Gerda Buch Bequest, in memory of her parents Rudolph and Julie Buch, with support from Art Fund.
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The Great Wave is a visually dynamic print with fully saturated blues and extraordinary contrast. Spectroscopic analysis shows that to achieve this, the printers did not simply substitute the exotic Prussian blue for the traditional (and duller) indigo.
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By Emma Taggart on January 17, 2018 "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" by Katsushika Hokusai via Wikimedia Commons While most people instantly recognize The Great Wave off Kanagawa, some may not know anything about its eccentric creator, Katsushika Hokusai.
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Detail. You might not know the title of Hokusai's print, but Under the Wave off Kanagawa is almost instantly recognizable. His Great Wave reveals the power of the sea and is frequently featured on everyday objects. We perceive it as a typical Japanese print. However, it is not quite as straightforward as it appears to be.
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'Under the Wave off Kanagawa') [a] is a woodblock print by Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai, created in late 1831 during the Edo period of Japanese history. The print depicts three boats moving through a storm-tossed sea, with a large, cresting wave forming a spiral in the centre and Mount Fuji visible in the background.
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Known for his ingenuity in creating striking designs through the clever use of perspective, Hokusai here shows Japan's tallest peak, Mount Fuji, as a small triangle in the distance, seen beneath a cresting waveâa symbol of nature's power.
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Katsushika Hokusai Title Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave, from the series "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjƫrokkei)" Place Japan (Object made in) Date 1826-1836 Medium Color woodblock print; oban Inscriptions Signature: Hokusai aratame Iitsu fude Publisher: Nishimura-ya Yohachi Dimensions
Hokusai the influential work of Japanese artist famous for 'the great
Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) has long enjoyed a strong international reputation and is considered by many to be Japan's greatest artist. The British Museum staged in 2017 the first exhibition in the UK to focus on his later years' life and art. This features his iconic print 'The Great Wave' [c. 1831], and continuing to the sublime.
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KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (17601849)
"The Great Wave off Kanagawa," from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji," Japan, Edo period, c. 1830-1834, color woodblock print. Honolulu Academy of Arts: Gift of James A. Michener.