The Great Wave III Canvas Art by Kanagawa Katsushika Hokusai

Description

This ready to hang, gallery wrapped art piece features the Great Wave. Katsushika Hokusai was a Japanese artist, painter and printmaker of the Edo period. Hokusai is best known as author of the woodblock print series. He began exploring other styles of art, including European styles he was exposed to through French and Dutch copper engravings he was able to acquire. Giclee (jee-clay) is an advanced printmaking process for creating high quality fine art reproductions. The attainable excellence that Giclee printmaking affords makes the reproduction virtually indistinguishable from the original piece. The result is wide acceptance of Giclee by galleries, museums, and private collectors. Gallery wrap is a method of stretching an artist’s canvas so that the canvas wraps around the sides and is secured a hidden, wooden frame. This method of stretching and preparing a canvas allows for a frameless presentation of the finished painting.