Hokusai used scale when he painted Mount Fuji. His composition in The Great Wave and The Inlet of Nobuto placed Mount Fuji in a distant center point in each painting. Mount Fuji is symbolic in each painting, yet he uses scale to give importance to the catastrophic waves, or the Japanese villagers gathering peacefully. In both paintings, Mount Fuji is the background. The mountain is undefeated by natural disasters. In The Inlet of Nobuto, the mountain is really distant, and completely covered with snow; even though, the sun is shining. The Great Wave’s Mount Fuji, is accumulating snow.
In the painting The Great Wave, Hokusai used curved lines, and white color to give the waves form. He then creates a circular shape that forms the waves from
In the painting The Great Wave, Hokusai used curved lines, and white color to give the waves form. He then creates a circular shape that forms the waves from