The Great Wave off Kanagawa
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Oct 28, 2026
Alastair SookeHOST
And there are really not many works of art that have their own emojis.
Alastair SookeHOST
One of them is The Great Wave.
Alastair SookeHOST
We've already done it.
Alastair SookeHOST
Which we've done.
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Alastair SookeHOST
Innate respect for images that cut through on this level.
Alastair SookeHOST
There aren't that many images that do it.
Alastair SookeHOST
The Great Wave is one of them, you know, Flaming June, Mona Lisa, whatever it might be.
Alastair SookeHOST
There is something about this which can... clearly resonates with many, many millions of people around the world.
Kyle WoodHOST
It was fairly common for artists to adopt different names throughout their careers.
Kyle WoodHOST
He started writing and painting at the age of six, and by the time he was a teenager, he was showing quite a bit of promise as an artist.
Kyle WoodHOST
At 14, he apprenticed as a woodcarver for woodblock prints.
Kyle WoodHOST
Now, for those unfamiliar, woodblock printing is basically using a block of wood as a stamp.
Kyle WoodHOST
An artist would draw an image, then the drawing would be placed face down onto the block of wood.
Kyle WoodHOST
A transfer would be created, gluing the drawing onto the block.
PeterHOST
Good.
PeterHOST
What is the great wave off Kanagawa actually about to capsize? Chat, this is a famous art.
PeterHOST
You like art, right? Good, sweet.
PeterHOST
This is a famous art.
EnitsuGUEST
It's a good art.
PeterHOST
Good art.
PeterHOST
What is the great wave off Kanagawa actually about to capsize? Response number one is the secret to life, the universe, and everything.
PeterHOST
Hashtag 42.
Jennifer ScottGUEST
worksOh, it's so exciting.
Jennifer ScottGUEST
The highlight of this exhibition is three versions of The Great Wave, that hugely famous image, which you really feel the impact seeing three versions of it side by side.
Jennifer ScottGUEST
And it helps to unpack why this is such a famous image and why Hokusai was one of the greatest artists that ever lived.
Charles HavilandHOST
And Harry Ross, what's your involvement with him and, and inspiration with him?
Harry RossGUEST
I wrote an opera that was premiered by Scottish Opera in February that was about the life of Katsushika Hokusai, and it was called The Great Wave, because that's his most famous image.
Harry RossGUEST
And so we framed it around this very, very dramatic piece where you can see three boats with men hunched over, maybe in fear or maybe just in desperation, or maybe they're just going about their day with this big wave that's just come up.
Charles HavilandHOST
Why, why, Harry, has it captivated us so much? Because I think almost everyone listening will have in their mind now what you've just described.
Charles HavilandHOST
[laughs] And it has influenced, hasn't it, Jennifer Scott, art and artists far from Japan's shores.
Evie HatchHOST
And this encouraged a fashion for prints made entirely or predominantly in shades of blue, and this is a style called Aizuri-e. Hokusai's 36 Views of Mount Fuji, which was published from around 1830, was closely connected to this new enthusiasm for blue.
Evie HatchHOST
Prussian blue appears throughout the series, including most famously in The Great Wave off Kanagawa, which is now one of the most reproduced images in the world.
Evie HatchHOST
From the mid-19th century, Japanese woodblock prints, which were printed with Prussian blue, began arriving in Europe in substantial numbers.
Evie HatchHOST
In Japan, they had been relatively inexpensive objects, produced in large editions by commercial publishing workshops.
Ira CreasmanHOST
The dynamics are swelling, if you like, up and down, quiet and loud.
Ira CreasmanHOST
There are some of the waves that remind me of that famous Japanese block print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa.
Ira CreasmanHOST
It's still not buckled in.
Ira CreasmanHOST
Little punk didn't listen.
Gideon LundinGUEST
It was originally used, one of the first uses was for sketching.
Gideon LundinGUEST
There was one artist, Hakusei, I think his name was, he did The Great Wave.
Gideon LundinGUEST
would block a lot of people know he used that word to basically refer to his sketches he would do sketches and if you think about it whimsical pictures kind of describes a sketch so are we talking about the 1800s when when did this uh i think
DagsHOST
that's more
JaboHOST
I like that when they do-
EarlHOST
The Great Wave one
JaboHOST
...
JaboHOST
when Lego, I think when Lego makes the art three-dimensional like that, I think that's putting their own spin on the art, where it's just not a reproduction just of the Mona Lisa, although that one was pretty bad.
Ross PattersonHOST
And, uh, now they're combining all the video games and all that stuff.
LukePANELIST
Yeah, but what, what's the, what's the purpose of this? That's Kanagawa.
LukePANELIST
What's...
LukePANELIST
It's a really old painting.
speaker_14UNKNOWN
Six, Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring.
speaker_14UNKNOWN
Seven, Hokusai's Great Wave.
speaker_14UNKNOWN
Eight- American Gothic by Grant Wood
David BrodyPANELIST
Yeah, I, I got that one on my list, yeah
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