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Whose Artwork Is The Great Wave off Kanagawa?

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Quick Answer

The Great Wave off Kanagawa is a woodblock print by Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai, made around 1831.

The Full Story

Hokusai created The Great Wave around 1831 as part of his series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji. It shows a towering wave curling over three boats, with the snow-capped mountain small in the distance. Hokusai was about 70 when he made it, after a long career of painting and printmaking. The print used Prussian blue, a synthetic pigment newly available in Japan, which gave it a vivid colour. Thousands of copies were printed, and surviving impressions are held in museums around the world.

Key Facts

1.The print is only about 25 by 37 centimetres.
2.Hokusai used more than 30 different artist names during his career.
3.Claude Debussy's orchestral work La Mer used the image on the cover of its 1905 score.

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