Who Is Vincent Van Gogh's Influence On Western Art

In the 18th and 19th centuries many western artists, both in Europe and America, were influenced by the influx of Japanese design and ukiyo-e prints. Considering this phenomenon, an artwork I chose to write about that you can see this in is Vincent van Gogh’s canvas painting Bridge in the Rain. In 1886 Van Gogh moved to Paris and was introduced to Japonism and ukiyo-e because his brother ran an art gallery and he lived next to one. He was fascinated with the designs, colors, and compositions of the artwork he had seen in Japonisme work and started collecting ukiyo-e prints. In 1887, he was inspired by a Japanese landscape painter, Utagawa Hiroshige, and started creating his oil painting. This makes his piece a form of Japonisme, as this means the influence of Japanese art on Western art (“Japonisme”). Van Gogh’s recreation slightly differs from Hiroshiges by using a canvas instead of woodcut, brighter colors, and brush strokes. To keep the standard canvas size, Gogh left a border and filled it with Japanese calligraphic figures that he got from other prints. …show more content…
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