Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji. This is the title of the series of prints produced by the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai in the early 1830s, and of which this one is: the great wave of Kanagawa. Relegating the sacred mountain to the background, she splashes the spectator from her deep Prussian blue. The use of this pigment, newly introduced to the land of the Sun-Levant, is not the only reason for the success of the work. Some advance his mathematical aesthetics: the inclination of the wave respects proportions dictated by name d’Or And its foam is a fractal, a rehearsal at all scales of the wave itself. Others appreciate its symbolism: the dark ocean wraps on the clear sky, recalling Yin and Yangthe struggle between good and evil. Carried by the print technique (engraved on wood then printed to dozens of copies), this wave swept over the West from the middle of the 19th century. She then inspires painters such as Van Gogh, Monet or river (we are talking about Japanese), illustrates the partition of the Debussy Sea in 1905, before advertising and fashion seized it (a surf brand made its logo). Today world famous, this art icon can even boast of having its own émoji.
According to a British study dated 2019, no! Because the wave of Hokusai would have exactly the same shape asA scoundrel wavecharacterized by a height twice as important as (…)
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