Van Gogh and the Influence of Japanese Art
Van Gogh oil painting (1887) After U.S. naval commander Matthew Perry sailed into Tokyo harbor and coerced the Japanese to open the country to trade, the Western world was introduced…
The Evolution of Color in Japanese Woodblock Printing
By Jim Hingst @hingst_jim Originally Japanese ukiyo-e prints were simple reproductions of black and white line drawings. Then early in the eighteenth century artists started to hand color their woodblock prints.…
How Japanese Printmaking Influenced Western Art
By Jim Hingst @hingst_jim For centuries the Japanese shoguns enforced isolationism in their country. That does not mean that they did not conduct trading with the West. The Japanese leaders…