The Japanese Bath By James Tissot

Many artists throughout the world have looked to the Japanese as inspiration for their own art. Artists such as Van Gogh, Monet, and Picasso have utilized the Japanese style, known as Japonisme to give their art a fresh look, or just to experiment with new things. A very accomplished artist, James Tissot, used this Japanese style in his earlier works. Tissot began his art career in the mid 1850’s while studying in college. It was in the 1860’s when he began to experiment with the eastern art style that many of his successors would use. The Japanese Bath is a work completed by Tissot in 1864. The piece features a woman, painted in a European style, standing in a doorway with a Japanese robe that is open to expose her nude body. In addition to wearing the Japanese robe, she is standing in what is presumably a Japanese bathhouse with paper walls and orchid flowers growing on the ceiling of the structure she is standing under. This work is very much Japonisme in that the woman who looks European, painted by a European artist, is shown wearing Japanese clothing in a Japanese-inspired building. This painting was completed in 1864 in a time when Tissot was painting many …show more content…
Luciano uses many different art mediums and styles to express himself. Miguel Luciano has used Japanese Manga with Puerto Rican influences to show his heritage and at times to make a statement. One of the pieces of art I enjoyed of Luciano’s was Exterminio De Nuestro Indios which is a pop art/ political/ traditional piece that shows Ronald McDonald as Columbus standing over a dead Indian with an Indian girl looking down in shame wearing a McDonald’s worker’s hat. This is a good example of hybrid art to me in that it shows the look of traditional style painting with pop culture references. The main message of this painting is to show how America has conquered and destroyed other cultures, in Miguel’s case, Puerto Rican