Edo, 1831
The Great Wave off Kanagawa
The Japonisme Story
EAST MEETS,
In 1831, Hokusai painted his wave with a blue pigment shipped from Berlin. The prints sailed back — and Paris never recovered.
Saint-Rémy, 1889
The Starry Night
One Horizon, Two Skies
WEST
The wave rose in the East. The stars answered in the West.
Take the Horizon Home
Wear Hokusai's wave by day, drink your morning coffee under Van Gogh's stars — the same admiration, worn two ways.
The Copy, and the Original
In 1887, Van Gogh painted Hiroshige's plum orchard stroke for stroke, from a print he kept pinned to his studio wall. Wear them side by side, the way he once studied them.