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Core Content: Engage: " Spotting Elements"

The document provides instructions and questions for an activity analyzing the elements of art in Katsushika Hokusai's famous woodblock print "The Great Wave off Kanagawa". Students are asked to consider how the line work and composition convey movement, as well as describe the patterns, emphasis, and proportions created by the repeating colors and enormous, dominating waves that increase the sense of danger and doom. Additional context is provided on Hokusai's ukiyo-e printmaking technique and the series this print was part of.

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Core Content: Engage: " Spotting Elements"

The document provides instructions and questions for an activity analyzing the elements of art in Katsushika Hokusai's famous woodblock print "The Great Wave off Kanagawa". Students are asked to consider how the line work and composition convey movement, as well as describe the patterns, emphasis, and proportions created by the repeating colors and enormous, dominating waves that increase the sense of danger and doom. Additional context is provided on Hokusai's ukiyo-e printmaking technique and the series this print was part of.

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Module 2

30 pts.

CORE CONTENT
ENGAGE: “Spotting Elements”

Activity 1
Instruction: The Great Wave of Kanawaga, also known as The Great Wave, is one of the most famous
examples of Japanese art in the world. Hiroe Nirei discusses some of the studies written about the iconic
image. Take a look and answer the process question stated below.

Process Questions:

1. If this painting could move, would it move quickly or slowly? Is there something about the elements of art
that make you think so? If this painting could move, it would move quickly. Yes, there is something about
the elements of art that will make me think so because line convey movement and mood.

2. How can you describe about the line/s in this painting?

The line/s in this painting which is demonstrated by the curvaceous line of the waves, Sharp lines are used
at the tip of the waves where water is about to engulf the helpless fishermen on their boats, which enhance
and amplifies the danger of the waves. This artwork has an asymmetrical composition, with the waves
taking over almost all the image ensuring that it dominates the composition which emphasizes the threat
and danger of the rough fierce crashing waves, as well as giving a sense of movement making the
audience experience how helpless the fishermen were against the enormous waves.

3. What more can you find? Enumerate & describe.

Pattern, Emphasis and Proportion are also present in the artwork, and are noticeable in the waves.

The pattern in the Great Wave off Kanagawa is the use of repeating colours (as seen in the blue of the
ocean) creates a pattern from dark to light. The wave is enormous to ensure that it dominates the
composition increasing the sense of impending doom. There is energy in the design of the ocean giving a
sense of eruption which is very rhythmic.
Ukiyo-e prints are recognizable for their emphasis on line and pure, bright color, as well as their ability
to distill form down to the minimum. Hokusai moved away from the tradition of making images of
courtesans and actors, which was the customary subject of ukiyo-e prints. Under the Wave off
Kanagawa is part of a series of prints titled Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji, which Hokusai made between
1830 and 1833. It is a polychrome (multi-colored) woodblock print, made of ink and color on paper that
is approximately 10 x 14 inches.

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