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FRAPAN Japanese influence on French Impressionist Post Impressionist Painting
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Japan’s emergence from its lengthy solitary confinement from the rest of the world, struck a craze for a new cultural experience for nineteenth-century French painters. It is almost coincidental that when French painters were in the slums of searching for a new order for aesthetic values in their artistic works, Japan finally undressed its cloak of mystery and opened its doors to the outside world. ... Japan’s influence on painting was significant and intense. Impressionist painters such as Monet, Cassatt, Degas, Van Gogh, Gaugin and Toulouse-Lautrec all incorporated stylistic qualities that later provided Post-Impressionism with its most characteristic features. ... Painting in France advanced and developed with the growth of the understanding of Japanese aesthetic. This aesthetic gave a new order and vocabulary to impressionist and post-impressionist art with an impressive effect of cultivating the sense of beauty and taste - the perception of the aesthetic through the senses.
French painters have always been attracted to the exotic such as the chinoiserie, the brief interest in Egyptian motifs and designs during the Napoleonic period and the sublime expression of the fascination for North Africa during the Romantic period. ... French art was only outwardly affected by chinoiserie and the interest in Egyptian art seemed short-lived but French art, especially impressionistic and post-impressionistic art, changed radically by the influence of Japan. Egypt and Africa found their way into the Frenchman’s canvas in the form of decorative motifs, topographical subject matter and bright colour schemes, whereas Japan altered the very outlook of French impressionist artists and transformed their styles.
Many reasons accounted for the appeal of Japanese art. ... Japanese culture was conveyed to Europeans as possessing artistic values in all aspects of its life. ... The refreshing spirit of Japanese art offered a creative alternative to artists who were exhausted of the classical styles of art that were popular at the time.
Artists were attracted by all aspects of Japanese art such as brush strokes, screen and scroll painting, calligraphy, the ink medium and so on, but it was the woodblock print that met the most fascination. The Japanese prints were unlike anything western and demonstrated an array of effects that most French artists would have believed impossible. ... The qualities of the Japanese print attracted western painters at a time when they were searching for alternatives to the Renaissance tradition and then their own styles seemed to be moving towards a more decorative, colourful approach. Knowledge of Japanese art flourished at a moment when cracks were beginning to appear in the aesthetic structure erected by the Renaissance: realism was no longer adopted and the mimetic approach to painting diminished. ... ”
To the impressionists and their successors, the post-impressionists, Japonisme promoted liberation by exposing its techniques. French painters were then released from the old traditional concepts of classical modeling taught at the academies. French impressionism and post-impressionism were movements that freed the artist’s imagination and glorified his mundane subjects. With the study of ukiyo-e, the “floating world” of Japanese images, artists were able to execute their personal experiences and feelings with scenes of daily life. ... The result was an intensification of individual originality instead of a submission to Japanese art. ...
As society improves and flourishes, artists acquire more influence by means of culture and technological innovations; and in relationship, that influence is considered to expand.
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Title: FRAPAN Japanese influence on French Impressionist Post Impressionist Painting
Words: 2692
Rating: None
Pages: 10.8
submitted by: Jubilee
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