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Hokusai

Let’s go to Japan with the painter Hokusai to discover his work The Great Wave of Kanagawa, better known as The Wave.

The Japanese painter draws the sea in all weather. “The Wave” will become his best-known print and the first in his series of thirty-six views of Mount Fuji.

The painter and engraver Hokusai lived between 1760 and 1849, after several years in a xylography workshop, he joined the workshop of the master Katsukawa where he began his work as an artisan of drawing and printmaking with modest incomes.

Later, the composition of The Wave, a synthesis of traditional Japanese printmaking and Western perspective, earned her an immediate success in Japan and then in Europe where she was a source of inspiration for the impressionists and continues to be so in our interior decorations.

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