The Great wave - Japanese art

The Artist :  

Hokusai is a Japanese painter and also a wood engraver. He is known for he outstanding work of figures and also printmaking. Also he used to observe and paint direct what he see not only flowers or scenes but also human and nature. People get to know his work because of his different type of work like he didn`t used to paint samurai and geishas so instead he used to paint on wooden-blocks make more emphases on figures.  His work also used to have curved and some parts of spirals as-well.

Description : 

Hokusai had created this painting when he had about seventy years old. This is know at the Museum in Japan.
He came with this idea of painting form his 13- volume of sketchbook, so then he choose one of them that is this painting.

The Painting The Great Wave [the wave of Kanagawa] is one of the most great painting in the movement . It is an art work that is popular around the world. It is showing a big wave that is coming across three fishing boats in a storm and in the horizontal there is the Mount Fuij. It was  made using woodblock print added with color. Like this painting there where a lot of copies and where began sold very cheap. I think that as a painting it shows a brilliant power of nature as the waves movement. It shows a relative combination with small mans on the boat and the height of the boat. 

Movie clip of some description of the painting :



Kinsner: Hokusai's Great Wave. 2013. Kinsner: Hokusai's Great Wave. [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.ee.umanitoba.ca/~kinsner/about/gwave.html. [Accessed 20 May 2013].


BBC - A History of the World - Object : Hokusai's 'The Great Wave'. 2013.BBC - A History of the World - Object : Hokusai's 'The Great Wave'. [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/MAPlqOEHRsmI1awIHQzRSQ. [Accessed 20 May 2013].