Ukiyo-e · 1760–1849 · Japanese
Hokusai
Hokusai's Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, The Great Wave among them, made bold use of Prussian blue, a synthetic pigment newly imported to Japan.
Across 7 works, the colors are mostly blue (27%), white (21%) and brown (15%). On average the canvases are light, moderately saturated and balanced between warm and cool. Signature colors, used far more here than across the collection: ivory, pale muted lime green, pale muted aqua, pale muted green and light muted aqua.
Color print
The swatches covering most of these canvases, averaged over every work, dark to light.
- MG 200 ivory 12.2% of canvas
- MG 080 light muted aqua 5.2% of canvas
- MG 053 pale muted green 5.0% of canvas
- MG 202 pale muted golden cream 4.7% of canvas
- MG 171 bone 4.5% of canvas
- MG 203 pale muted golden cream 4.3% of canvas
- MG 036 pale gold 4.2% of canvas
- MG 079 pale muted aqua 3.7% of canvas
- MG 100 very dark muted blue 3.3% of canvas
- MG 018 red 2.9% of canvas
- MG 051 pale muted lime green 2.8% of canvas
- MG 201 parchment 2.8% of canvas
- MG 108 very dark blue 2.8% of canvas
- MG 189 pale golden sand 2.7% of canvas
- MG 106 blue 2.5% of canvas
- MG 099 dark muted blue 2.4% of canvas