Great wave of kanagawa

Interpreting The Great Wave Off Kanagawa

The Great Wave Off Kanagawa by Hokusai

Katsushika Hokusai From around the age of six, I had the habit of•sketching fromwoodblock printing artist Japanese life. I became an artist, and from fifty on began producing works that won some reputation, but nothing I did before the age of•seventy was worthy of attention. At seventy- Lived 1760 –1849 three, I began to grasp the structures of birds and beasts, insects and fish, and of the way•plants grow. a series trying, I “36surely of Created If I go on called will Views Mt. Fugi” understand them still better by the time I am eighty-six, so that by ninety I will have penetrated to their essential nature. At one hundred, I may well have a positively divine understanding of them, while at one hundred and thirty, forty, or more I will have reached the stage where every dot and every stroke I paint will be alive. May Heaven, that grants long life, give me the chance to prove that this is no lie.

36 Views of Mt. Fugi

The Great Wave Off Kanagawa is the most famous of the series. Why?

Many artists are inspired by The Great Wave Off Kanagawa• Artists pay homage to Hokusai by interpreting his artwork.• What do you think homage means?

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