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The art of Japan’s Edo period is undeniably beautiful, influencing creators across the centuries. Japanese artist Katsushika ...
Case in point: On Tuesday, Christie’s in New York sold Katsushika Hokusai’s “Under the Well of the Great Wave off Kanagawa” for $2.8 million—a new record high for the 1830-32 woodblock ...
Artist Austin Davis was a high schooler in Yelm when he first saw downtown Olympia’s mural of “The Great Wave off Kanagawa,” which has stood on Fourth Avenue at the foot of Budd Inlet for ...
The Great Wave? I've etched that in glass ... so he could take the carved glass and beam the image on to the wall. One night, Swords says, "after the pubs closed, we projected the Wave up ...
A huge blue and white wave towers over three unfortunate boats, with Mount Fuji framed by the cresting wall of water ... James tells the story of how The Great Wave conquered the world.
Each scene from the series features Mount Fuji as the protagonist—sometimes seen from a distance as in "The Great Wave," other times up close—during various season and weather conditions and ...
“The Great Wave,” by Michiko Kakutani—czarina of book reviews at the Times from 1983 to 2017—is one such textual debacle. It is a sneering, snobbish little exercise in ideological and ...
In the past century, the remarkable Great Lakes waves that swept fishermen from piers and plucked swimmers from beaches have gone by many names. “Freak wave.” “Wall of water.” ...
The exhibition poster features Hokusai’s most famous image, The Great Wave, created around 1830 when the artist was about sixty years old. There is much moving water in the show. A hanging ...
Design Mario Romano carves building-size murals and patterns into Corian using robotics. The results are unlike any wall coverings out there.