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The Great Wave off Kanagawa has been described as "possibly the most reproduced image in the history of all art", [1] as well as being a contender for the "most famous artwork in Japanese history". [2] This woodblock print has influenced several Western artists and musicians, including Claude Debussy, Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet.
Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾 北斎, c. 31 October 1760 – 10 May 1849), known mononymously as Hokusai, was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period, active as a painter and printmaker. [1] His woodblock print series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji includes the iconic print The Great Wave off Kanagawa .
Hiroshige's work came to have a marked influence on western European painting towards the close of the 19th century as a part of the trend in Japonism. Western European artists, such as Manet and Monet , collected and closely studied Hiroshige's compositions: Vincent van Gogh , for instance, painted copies of some Hiroshige prints.
The Great Wave off Kanagawa, the best known print in the series (20th century reprint). Mount Fuji is in the center distance.. Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Japanese: 富嶽三十六景, Hepburn: Fugaku Sanjūrokkei) is a series of landscape prints by the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai (1760–1849).
Painter and engraver, applied French oil painting techniques to traditional Japanese painting Ohno Bakufu: 1888–1976 Painter and printmaker Kawai Kanjirō: 1890–1966 Potter and a key figure in mingei (Japanese folk art) and studio pottery movements Yasuo Kuniyoshi: 1893–1953 Migrated to New York from Japan in 1906.
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese: 歌川 国芳, [ɯtaɡawa kɯɲiꜜjoɕi]; 1 January 1798 [1] – 14 April 1861) was one of the last great masters of the Japanese ukiyo-e style of woodblock prints and painting. [2] He was a member of the Utagawa school. [3]
Hasui Kawase (川瀬 巴水, Kawase Hasui, May 18, 1883 – November 7, 1957) was a Japanese artist who was one of 20th century Japan's most important and prolific printmakers. He was a prominent designer of the shin-hanga ("new prints") movement, whose artists depicted traditional subjects with a style influenced by yōga (Western-style ...
Waves at Matsushima, also named Pine Islands, is a pair of Japanese landscape paintings on two six-fold screens, made by artist Tawaraya Sōtatsu in the 1620s. They were painted with ink, color, gold, and silver on paper.