Japanese Art Van Gogh
In a single brief period in the winter of 1886 87 vincent van gogh bought 660 woodcuts from the paris art dealer siegfried bing.
Japanese art van gogh. Van gogh considered japanese prints a model of pure artistic expression uncorrupted by western modes of representation. Japanese art was created in 1887 by vincent van gogh in japonism style. The following year van gogh now living in arles had become more independent in his work with japanese prints. Van gogh did not pick out the best known or most expensive works.
The convention of kanagawa put an end to the 200 year old japanese foreign. In terms of composition several of his paintings depicting trees in blossom resemble hiroshige s the sumida river embankment in edo tôto sumida zutsumi another print from the above mentioned series as a result of learning from japanese art van gogh gained his own distinctive. Before 1854 trade with japan was confined to a dutch monopoly and japanese goods imported into europe were for the most part confined to porcelain and lacquer ware. Japanesery was the term the dutch post impressionist painter vincent van gogh used to express the influence of japanese art.
In the attic of his gallery van gogh was able to browse the thousands of japanese prints bing offered for sale at low prices.