The Great Wave off Kanagawa is an iconic image. Katsushika Hokusai’s 1830s print, depicting a towering sea surge, has travelled far beyond its origins to evoke Japan around the world, upstaging ...

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Read our review of The Great Wave at Theatre Royal, Glasgow. Dai Fujikura’s new opera gets bogged down in biographical detail ...

One of the most recognisable artworks in history, The Great Wave blends beauty, danger, and innovation. This episode explains ...

For centuries, the East and West have existed as what seem to be distinct entities — so different in culture and ideology that the art they produced reflected those stark differences. While Western ...

There are some works of art that even the most uncultured philistines of today’s culture can recognize. Van Gogh’s “Starry Night,” Munch’s “The Scream,” and of course, da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa.” And on ...

In the last column, we explored how Hokusai’s “The Great Wave” incorporated Western techniques and came to symbolize artistic exchange between East and West. In this article, we will examine how the ...