{"id":155132,"date":"2023-01-10T22:23:28","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T04:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/an-introduction-to-hokusais-great-wave-one-of-the-most-recognizable-artworks-in-the-world"},"modified":"2023-01-10T22:23:28","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T04:23:28","slug":"an-introduction-to-hokusais-great-wave-one-of-the-most-recognizable-artworks-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/an-introduction-to-hokusais-great-wave-one-of-the-most-recognizable-artworks-in-the-world","title":{"rendered":"An Introduction to Hokusai\u2019s Great Wave, One of the Most Recognizable Artworks in the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/an-introduction-to-hokusais-great-wave-one-of-the-most-recognizable-artworks-in-the-world.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You need not be a student of Japanese <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theartstory.org\/movement\/ukiyo-e-japanese-woodblock-prints\/\">Ukiyo-e<\/a> woodblock prints to recognize artist <a href=\"https:\/\/mymodernmet.com\/katsushika-hokusai-the-great-wave\/\">Katsushika Hokusai\u2019<\/a>s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/art\/collection\/search\/45434\">Under the Wave Off Kanagawa<\/a> \u2013 or the Great Wave, as it has come to be known.<\/p>\n<p>Like Leonardo da Vinci\u2019s Mona Lisa and Botticelli\u2019s The Birth of Venus, it\u2019s been reproduced on all manner of improbable items and subjected to liberal reimagining \u2013 something <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theartassignment.com\/about\">Sarah Urist Green<\/a>, describes in the above episode of her series <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@theartassignment\">The Art Assignment<\/a><\/em> as \u201cnumerous crimes against this image perpetrated across the internet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Such repurposing is the ultimate compliment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You need not be a student of Japanese Ukiyo-e woodblock prints to recognize artist Katsushika Hokusai\u2019s Under the Wave Off Kanagawa \u2013 or the Great Wave, as it has come to be known. Like Leonardo da Vinci\u2019s Mona Lisa and Botticelli\u2019s The Birth of Venus, it\u2019s been reproduced on all manner of improbable items and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}