I'm looking for some info on what, exactly, artists like Degas, Monet, and Van Gogh incorporated into their own art from Japanese art (ukiyo-e more specifically). Like...what aspects of woodblock prints did they practice in their own paintings.
Help is greatly appreciated and needed...
They incorporated (Van Gogh in partic) the vivid and bright colors of the Ukiyoe masters who painted with a loose brush stroke; also they adopted the idea of cutting off a scene , as well as the use of silhouettes, these features occurred in photography, but it became valid in the paintings of the Impressionists when they observed similar elements in Japanese prints. They also copied the way these masters used a black line to surround images. Also very influential to the Impressionists was the Japanese handling of flat space.See paragraph starting "Japanese compositional devices..." http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1982/4/82.04.03.x.html
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