Japonisme

Japonisme

Europeans has showed interest in the Far Eastern art, the most interest was in ceramics, which was started to be known as an interest from the 16th century, by the Japanese art became to the surface from the year 1854, this happened because the United States and multiples of European countries made treaties which than had to force Japan to let the whole world see. Japan had heavy industry, not that much,so it used the platform of so much worldwide exhibitions in order to promote the talents and skills of the artist and craftsman. The Japanese than figures the imagination of the west. All other individuals included promoted Japanese Art, which include Samuel Bing who was born in the year of 1838 and died in the year 1905 in which he opened a shop of Japanese objects in Paris in the years of the 1880s, following was Vincent Van Gogh whe was born in the year 1853 and died in the year 1890, another artist is Toulouse Lautrec who was born in the year 1864 and died in the year 1901. Samuel Bing also published Le Japon Artistique. Moving to the years of the 1860s, 1870s and 1880s, a lot of Japanese Artists went to study the Western-style realism. Western artists were influenced by the Japanese Ukiyo-e prints, porcelain, textiles, lacyer and also including architecture, this concluded to the styleof the Japonisme. Some of the Western artists were contextual to the new freedom from imitative or also the photographicrepresentation, and these also opened up to new formats which include fan leaves, folding screens and narrow hanging-scrolls. This suggests new perspective views of vision and whole new different angles. The uses of bold, unshaped colour for the painting's compositions which encourage a whole new trend towards abstraction. Showing very strong diangonals, the silhouette, cropped close-up partial side views of the objects themselves, shown in the foreground and also showing a flexible approach to blanked out spaces which are suggested with fruitful new possibilities to multiple artists which include: Vincent Van Gogh, Edgar Degas who was born in the year 1834 and died in the year 1917, and also including another artist who is James McNeill Whistler who was born in the year 1834 and died in the year 1903.

References:

• Degas and Japonisme | Barbaraanne's Hair Comb Blog. 2013. Degas and Japonisme | Barbaraanne's Hair Comb Blog. [ONLINE] Available at: http://barbaraanneshaircombblog.com/2009/10/07/degas-and-japonisme/. [Accessed 09 April 2013].
• Japonisme | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2013. Japonisme | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/jpon/hd_jpon.htm. [Accessed 09 April 2013].
• British Museum - Japonisme . 2013. British Museum - Japonisme . [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/articles/j/japonisme.aspx. [Accessed 09 April 2013].