How “Starry Night” Draws From “Great Wave”
Details here: ‘Was Van Gogh inspired by Hokusai’s The Great Wave when he painted his Starry Night? The link between these two masterpieces of 19th-century art does not seem to have been made before. But Vincent was a great admirer of this Japanese print, writing vividly to his brother Theo: Hokusai’s “waves are claws, the boat is caught in them, you can feel it”.’
