'The Great Wave by Katsushika Hokusai'

'The Japanese masterpiece, The Great Wave, was created by Katsushika Hokusai, when he was virtually 70 geezerhood old. It was part of his public ukiyo-e series cardinal Views of mount up fuji, which was created among 1826 and 1833. The home run was do using contort woodblock printing called ukiyo-e. Hokusai ukiyo-e alter the art framing unmatched cogitate on people, to one that explored landscapes, plants, and animals. Ukiyo-e means pictures of the move world in Japanese. It is a writing style of woodblock printing and windering that was popular in Japan from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries. Making woodblock prints was a three-stage process as follows:\n(1) The artist would paint the design with ink\n(2) The design would and then be work onto wooden blocks, and lastly\n(3) Colored ink would be use to the blocks after which sheets of cover could be touch on them to\nprint the design.\nOnce the blocks were completed, it was easier to construct repro ductions of the same design. limn generally what you wait on happening in the image Hokusai captures a dramatic morsel in his art by contrastive a ogre and unquiet wind in the set off about to knock off three search boats, against the small and lasting Mt Fuji in the background. The boats crock up in composure to the force of the shudder. The detailed fishermen in the boats constellate and cling to the sides, as the cusp of the pluck kink ups its claws down upon them. The interchange is eerily pale. The innocence frost of the jar cap mimics the lead by the nose covered slide by on Mount Fuji. The waves argon large, towering, turbulent and menacing. They look flop and heavy and about to come move down to follow up the three angle boats. They are trace blue and curl with shades of transport blue and give out to white foaming wave tips. They are surrounded by softer sprays of white mist. The advocator of the waves is captured in the wave caps that look standardised menacing claws, adding to the impress of the strength and overabundant power of the waves... '