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The composition of The Great Wave is a synthesis of traditional Japanese prints and use of graphical perspective developed in Europe, and earned him immediate success in Japan and later in Europe, where Hokusai's art inspired works by the Impressionists.
Katsushika Hokusai Japanese. ca. 1830–32. Not on view. The breathtaking composition of this woodblock print, said to have inspired Debussy’s La Mer (The Sea) and Rilke’s Der Berg (The Mountain), ensures its reputation as an icon of world art.
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.
10 maj 2020 · Early printing of the Great Wave. Hokusai's famous work was among the first prints in Japan to use Prussian blue, a new synthetic pigment that resisted fading, imported from China and the Netherlands (the only countries Japan traded with in the 1830s).
Japanese, 1760-1849. Katsushika Hokusai’s much celebrated series, Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjûrokkei), was begun in 1830, when the artist was 70 years old. This tour-de-force series established the popularity of landscape prints, which continues to this day.
Artist: Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, Tokyo (Edo) 1760–1849 Tokyo (Edo)) Period: Edo period (1615–1868) Date: ca. 1830–32. Culture: Japan. Medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper. Dimensions: 10 x 15 in. (25.4 x 38.1 cm) Classification: Prints. Credit Line: The Howard Mansfield Collection, Purchase, Rogers Fund, 1936. Accession ...
This iconic composition comes from the golden age of Japanese woodblock printmaking. Hokusai manages, through the clever and dramatic manipulation of space, to dwarf Japan's snow-capped Mt. Fuji...
