The Great Wave and Watches
I watch a lot of YouTube reviews about watches and I have noticed a great affinity by presenters such as Urban Gentry, Ben’s Watch and many others to use The Great Wave of Kanagawa print as a background and I was wondering if there was a particular connection between this work and horology or is this just a popular print these days among the young like Klimt’s The Kiss was popular with young women during my college years in the 90’s?
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Miguel A Rodriguez
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Here’s a link to a thread on watchuseek.com that may help explain your observation.
https://www.watchuseek.com/threads/the-seiko-tsunami-logo-the-great-wave-off-kanagawa-a-watch-collecting-myth.319585/
I guess Hokusai is still seen as iconic 🙂 I have another print by Katsushima H also . Just an A4 print though:)
Also you will see this in many a tattoo studio as an iconic work to get inked with !
Also you will see this in many a tattoo studio as an iconic work to get inked with !
I was aloof to this trend until I got into this hobby
I was aloof to this trend until I got into this hobby
I was an art student in my youth and got right into Dali , H Bosche Magritt and Japanese wood block prints :) I liked KH before he became ubiquitous:)