Hokusai Katsushika Japanese Woodblock Print
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For sheer force, no other Hokusai composition can match this gigantic wave, thrust up high out of the ocean and threatening to swallow the tine boat beneath. Here we see dynamism, boldness, and scope rarely to be found in Japanese art after the thirteenth century, and none too often before. Here, too, are the ruggedness and vigor that distinguish Hokusai's oeuvre from that of the lyrical and more sentimental, but less egotistical, Hiroshige. The subject was not new to Hokusai. He had employed the same idea some thirty years earlier in a print modeled on Dutch etchings, but partly because of his effort to be true to the Western style in this picture, the results were far less impressive. In the "Great Wave off the Coast of Kanagawa" a touch of the Western approach can be recognized in the exceedingly owe point of view, but the churning sea and the tentacles of the wave are executed in a manner close to the Japanese tradition.
Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. He is best known as author of the woodblock print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, which includes the internationally iconic print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, created during the 1820's.
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Hokusai Katsushika Japanese Woodblock Print
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