The Great Wave off Kanagawa
by Weston Westmoreland
Title
The Great Wave off Kanagawa
Artist
Weston Westmoreland
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
The Great Wave off Kanagawa, Hokusai, 1830.
The Great Wave off Kanagawa is a woodblock print by the Japanese artist Hokusai. It was published sometime around 1830 as the first print in Hokusai's series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. The image depicts an enormous wave in the Sagami Bay (Kanagawa Prefecture) with Mount Fuji rising in the background. Sometimes assumed to be a tsunami, the wave is more likely to be a large rogue wave. It is Hokusai's most famous work and is often considered the most recognizable work of Japanese art in the world.
Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese art which flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries that produced woodblock prints and paintings of individuals as female beauties, kabuki actors or sumo wrestlers and scenes from history and folk tales, travel scenes and landscapes, etc.
Woodblock printing in Japan was used in single art sheets and also for book printing during the Edo period (1603–1868). Similar to Western woodcut printmaking, it used water-based inks instead of oil-based.
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March 14th, 2021
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