It is always good to learn from different design in the
entire world. Nowadays, due to the information flow, we are able to look at
whatever we want to look easily. However, people in the past barely had chance
to look at foreign painting. Yet, if we look at history carefully, we would
always find something we don’t expect. There are some influences between two
strange countries.
At the beginning of the chapter of this week, I saw the
Japanese Ukiyo-e. Ukiyo-e is such a wonderful art which is from Japan. Ukiyo-e
means the picture of the floating world. Most of them present the daily lives
of ordinary people. They were popular within the society of Japan, as they are
affordable. Let’s see how far the influence of Ukiyo-e has gone!
From the masterpiece of Vincent van Gogh, which is "Portrait
of Père Tanguy," audiences could all see the Ukiyo-e as wallpaper.
Can you believe that? The two upper pictures were truly drawn by van Gogh. He even copied a few Ukiyo-e within his lifetime. Yes, Vincent van Gogh loved Ukiyo-e. Vincent found the Ukiyo-e really inspiring. Japanese Ukiyo-e influenced him a lot. Some people would
say that the some of the unique characters of his art were from the Ukiyo-e.
Some people claim that “The Starry Night” of van Gogh is
inspired by the “The Great Wave off Kanagawa” of Japanese artist Katsushika
Hokusai. “The Great Wave off Kanagawa” is the first Ukiyo-e in the series 36
Views of Mount Fuji. The unique points are pretty similar, but who really
knows?
The most interesting part of reading history is that readers
could always find the relationship between histories of different country. The
artists of those countries don’t even know each other, then how? How could one
affect other one?
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3.Vincent van Gogh, Courtesan (after Eisen), 1887, Van Gogh Museum
4.Katsushika Hokusai, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, 1829-32
5.Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night, June 1889, The Museum
of Modern Art
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