Japanese Prints of the 18th and 19th Century

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5 responses to “Japanese Prints of the 18th and 19th Century”

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   ceparie

   October 23, 2012

   I developed a much greater appreciation for Japanese prints once I understood how they were made. On your link to the museum and prints, their sidebar includes a great demonstration of the wood block process. How wonderful that we live in an age where work like this can be shared for all to see.
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   Lorette

   October 23, 2012

   As a fervent ‘Van Gogh-lover’ I can proudly announce that the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam houses a unique collection of almost 500 Japanese prints. The majority of these come from the collection that Vincent van Gogh and his brother Theo accumulated during the 1880s.
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   Lorette

   October 23, 2012

   Hokusai Katsushika (1760 – 1849) said that all he had done before the age of 70 was not worth bothering with.
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   Donald Pittenger

   October 23, 2012

   Note the use of Western-style perspective in some of the prints. Influence was a two-way street in the late 1800s and later.
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      Charley Parker

      October 23, 2012

      Yes, some of those images we in the west consider quintessentially Japanese, like Katsushika Hokusai’s The Wave were demonstrating the influence of European art. My understanding is that the influence of European prints, initially illegal to import into Japan, came at first from discarded printed matter that was used as wrapping or padding for trade goods.