The Great Wave off Kanagawa Painting

SAFE aiming to honor this exponent of the painting world, made a reinterpretation of the Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji. The paintings have the same sizes (60x60 cm) and were painted with acrylic paint. Among them are: "South Wind, Clear Sky" or "Red Fuji, “The Great Wave off Kanagawa”, “Rain Storm Beneath the Summit”. To express their vision of the work of Hokusai and make clear the visual proposal, In this series, SAFE used as inspiration two elements: the colors and the titles of the woodblocks of Hokusai. The color combination with the primitive pictographic language resulted in an abstract reinterpretation unusual for its aesthetic beauty and their deep meaning. The series named Fugaku Sanju Rokkei (Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji), created in 1832 is the best know Hokusai’s masterpieces and is well representative of all Japanese woodblock print developed by school of Ukiyo-ê. (The Pictures of Floating World). This series depicts the mount Fuji in different seasons, more or less distant and different weather conditions. Mount Fuji is the highest mountain of all Japan and the 35th highest in the world. Located in western Tokyo, near the Pacific coast of the island of Honshu , on the border between the provinces of Shizuoka and Yamanashi. Artwork is stretched on a supported wooden frame (ready to hang).