May 25, 2017
BEYOND THE GREAT WAVE : Hokusai
Today sees the opening of an exhibition of the work of the great Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai (1769-1849) at the British Museum, London.
The exhibition focuses on the work he produced in the last 30 years of his life when he was at his most creative and produced his most notable work. This includes his celebrated woodblock print Great Wave and the series of prints Thirty Six Views of Mount Fuji. The first five prints of this series were printed entirely in tones of blue, Hokusai using a palette of indigo and the newly-invented imported chemical pigment, Prussian blue.
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