Publications by tag: японизм

A large exhibition is open at the National Gallery of Denmark demonstrating the influence of the art of the Land of the Rising Sun on the oeuvrses of Vincent van Gogh, Edward Munch, Andres Zorn, Claude Monet and their colleagues; their artworks are exhibited alongside with the paintings, engravings and woodcuts by such great Japanese artists like Katsushika Hokusai and Utagawa Hiroshige. A…

We could hardly find the same powerful and undeniable sources of Impressionism as the Japanese Art. Neither Turner with his foggy landscape nor Barbizon painters with their open air sketches and even marvelous landscapes of Paris suburbs impacted the way of seeing of future impressionists like  wondrous multicolored woodblock prints on washi (Japanese rice paper) which were first used by…

Japan for Vincent van Gogh was an undiscovered country like the Atlantean continent for the other people. He read about it, collected an enormous number of small things and pictures resembling it and at the same time he was aware of he would never have a chance to see it with his own eyes.  Vincent invented his own way possible only for him; obsessively and insatiably (as anything he did in his…