Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave, from the series "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)"
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About this curation
A cross-cultural curation of five paintings of the sea, from Hokusai's Great Wave to Aivazovsky's Russian Romantic seascape. Each artist solved the same impossible problem — how to hold moving water still on a flat surface — using radically different tools.
Artists from radically different traditions chose the wave as their subject and arrived at surprisingly convergent solutions. This curation lets the reader see those convergences in detail, not just read about them.