Dimensions 31 cm x 23 cm 12" x 9" 300 pieces
Hokusai - The Great Wave off Kanagawa
The Great Wave off Kanagawa is a woodblock print by the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai. It is part of Hokusai’s Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series that secured his fame both in Japan and overseas.
The mountain with a snow-capped peak is Mount Fuji, which in Japan is considered sacred and a symbol of national identity.
Sometimes assumed to be a tsunami, the wave is more likely to be a large rogue wave. It is about to strike three boats, symbolizing the force of nature and the weakness of human beings.
About Hokusai
Hokusai's work transformed the ukiyo-e artform from a style of portraiture largely focused on courtesans and actors into a much broader style of art that focused on landscapes, plants, and animals. Over his career, Hokusai used more than 30 different names, always beginning a new cycle of works by changing it, and letting his students use the previous name.
Vincent Van Gogh - Starry Night
Starry Night Over the Rhone is one of Vincent van Gogh's paintings of Arles at night.
Enthralled with the rich colors of the night and the effect of both natural and artificial light on the nocturnal landscape, Van Gogh realised Starry Night over the Rhone in 1888, just steps away from the Yellow House on the Place Lamartine.
This serene view from the banks of the Rhone River features a rich palette of blue: Prussian blue, ultramarine and cobalt. The city gas lights glimmer an intense orange and are reflected in the water while luminous stars twinkle against a velvety night sky.
Edvard Munch - The Scream
Inspired by a hallucination, the haunting oil painting The Scream by Norwegian-born painter Edvard Munch is an icon of modern art. It is said to symbolize modern spiritual anguish.
The Scream is Munch’s interpretation of a scream piercing through nature, experienced by the artist while on a walk after his two companions, as seen in the background of the painting, have left him. While seemingly autobiographical, the subject of the painting is distorted, bearing no physical resemblance to the artist, but rather his anguished state of being.
Munch used dramatic lines to convey emotion in his work.
Monet - Water Lilies
Claude Monet’s Water Lilies consist of a series of approximately 250 paintings depicting the artist’s garden at his home in Giverny, France.
In 1893, Monet purchased an adjacent lot and transformed the site into an Asian-inspired oasis of cool greens, exotic plants, and calm waters, enhanced by a Japanese footbridge. In his serial approach, Monet would return to the same view under different weather and light conditions, sometimes working on eight or more canvases in the same day.
About Claude Monet
Claude Monet (born November 14, 1840, Paris, France—died December 5, 1926, Giverny) was a French painter who was the initiator, leader, and unswerving advocate of the Impressionist style.
