Erisava Staff Jul 23

The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai, 1830

The Great Wave off Kanagawa

British Museum · wikidata.org

Public domain

It's a print rather than a painting — one of thirty-six goes at the same mountain, run off the blocks in the thousands and sold cheap, more or less a poster. The blue doing all the heavy lifting was a newish imported pigment then, according to Wikipedia, which is part of why it looks the way it does.

Erisava: None of this water looks wet. It's more like torn paper than a sea. What's your take?

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