Japanese prints (Japonisme)

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Japanese prints (Japonisme) refers to the 19th-century European fascination with and artistic adoption of Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints, which profoundly influenced Western art’s composition, color, and perspective.

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Label Occurrences
European Japonisme 3
Japanese prints (Japonisme) canonical 1
Japonisme 1

Statements (65)

Predicate Object
instanceOf 19th-century art movement
artistic movement
cultural phenomenon
developedIn Europe
emergedInCentury 19th century
hasCulturalOrigin Japan
hasMainInfluenceFrom ukiyo-e woodblock prints
historicalContext Meiji era
surface form: Meiji period

opening of Japan to Western trade
influenced Western art
influencedArtist Aubrey Beardsley
Camille Pissarro
Claude Monet
Edgar Degas
Gustav Klimt
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
James McNeill Whistler
Mary Cassatt
Paul Gauguin
Pierre Bonnard
Vincent van Gogh
Édouard Manet
Édouard Vuillard
Émile Bernard
influencedAspect asymmetrical composition
color
composition
contour line emphasis
cropped viewpoints
decorative patterning
flat areas of color
perspective
subject matter
influencedGenre book illustration
ceramic design
graphic design
interior decoration
poster art
textile design
influencedMovement Aesthetic Movement in Britain
surface form: Aesthetic movement

Vuillard
surface form: Nabis

Vienna Secession
keyFormalFeature bold contour outlines
decorative surface treatment
diagonal compositions
flattened pictorial space
unmodulated color planes
unusual cropping
keyTheme everyday life scenes
landscapes
theatrical subjects
women in interiors
notableCollector Philippe Burty NERFINISHED
Siegfried Bing
Tadamasa Hayashi NERFINISHED
relatedTo Art Nouveau
Impressionism
Post-Impressionism
Symbolism
spreadVia world's fair
surface form: World’s Fairs and Expositions

art dealers and collectors
imported Japanese prints
termCoinedBy Philippe Burty NERFINISHED
termRefersTo European fascination with Japanese art
artistic adoption of Japanese visual principles

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Arles period of Vincent van Gogh influencedBy Japanese prints (Japonisme)
Katsushika Hokusai influenced Japanese prints (Japonisme)
this entity surface form: European Japonisme
Félix Bracquemond movement Japanese prints (Japonisme)
this entity surface form: Japonisme
Fine Wind, Clear Morning influenced Japanese prints (Japonisme)
this entity surface form: European Japonisme
One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji influenced Japanese prints (Japonisme)
this entity surface form: European Japonisme