Andrea, Becky and Kay’s Presentation

Compare and contrast:Mode of productionDesign philosophy

Aesthetic / social valuesAudience and client

Technologies implemented

Japonisme1880 - 1890

Japonisme is the appreciation of Japanese art

With technologies implemented at this time. Japan opened its borders and Japanese art became available for western market.

Monet

Vincent van Gogh

Our Chosen artists

James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Ando HiroshigeKameido Ume (Japanese apricot) Garden

1857from the series

One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

Vincent van GoghFlowering Plum Tree

1887

Vincent Van Gogh

Ando HiroshigeThunderstorm at Ohashi

from the seriesOne Hundred Famous Views of Edo

Vincent van GoghBridge in the Rain (after Hiroshige)

1887

Claude Oscar Monet 1880 - 1890

(Hokusai-series 36 vues du mont)

One of Monet's collection

Introduction

Monet's love affair with Japanese art started in Paris, There he spotted some Japanese prints used as wrapping paper.

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This purchase changed his life and many say the history of western art. Monet went on to collect 231 Japanese prints which were flooding into European department stores.

Japanese became a fascination with all things Japonisme, This was the rage among French intellectuals and artists. Monet had collected several of Hiroshige's. Scenes from the classic novel (The tale of genji).

More of Monet's collection

Illustrations from the famous classic novel , some more of Monet's collections

The Marmottwen Gallery in France is where some of Monet's paintings are hung. They decided not to put Monet's collection of Japanese prints along side his own

paintings . I think having these paintings side by side would have shown the influence of the Japanese prints more so on Monet's own art works .

Monet was not shy about his fascination with Japan and in (1876 )he painted his wife Camille in a kimono against a background, decorated with Japanese paper fans.

In 1883 , Monet built a Japanese bridge over a Japanese themed pond that he had built . In a Japanese garden which again he had built. He then spent the rest of his life painting this private paradise

Japanese bridge. Japanese pond. Japanese garden.

Conclusion

The reality of how Japonisme influenced Claude Monet is elusive, subtle and obscured by his own unique style. He became a master of impressionism. Maybe it was his unique style that influenced Japan.

Maybe this is why his paintings and collection of his Japonisme prints are not exhibited side by side in Marmottwen

Monet's unique style before Japonisme influence

Camille Monet in the Garden at Argenteuil 1876

James Abbott McNeil Whistler This is probably Whistler’s most well known portrait painting

Often referred to as ‘Whistler’s Mother’ When exhibited, he was applauded for the style of painting by other artists but not by the critics and public

‘The whole will form the Harmony: How well the Japanese understood this, they never look for contrast ...’ JM Whistler

Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1: Portrait of the Painter’s Mother. 1871. Oil on Canvas

James Abbott McNeil Whistler

Model dressed as a courtesan looking at woodblock prints in front of a golden screen – this was an early painting of Whistler’s after his exposure to the Japanese woodblock prints There is an early similar colour print by Hiroshige Caprice in Purple and Gold No.2: The Golden Screen

(1864) Oil on Canvas

Whistler’s InfluencesEra Artist Style Media World Whistler

1750 FragonardDavid

Neoclassicism American RevolutionFrench Revolution

1800  

GoyaIngres

ConstableCourbet

RomanticismRealism

PhotographyWatercolours

Louisiana PurchaseQueen Victoria

Irish famineRailroads spread

1834 Born in USA Comfortable lifestyle

Major Father was an engineer:supervised laying Czar’s railtrack

1850 BierstadtRossetti

Holman HuntMillais

Pre-RaphaelitesTube paints

Fountain penU.S. Civil War

Evolution theorySanford founded

1842 Moved to Court of Russia 1845 Fine Arts Academy

1849 Father died: back to USA1854 Cartographer (etching) 1856 Paris: Artistic training

1858 Published first set of etchings: The French Set

1875DegasCassattGauguin

Van GoghMonetMorisotSeurat

RealismImpressionism

Post-ImpressionismBallpoint Pen

Colonialism peaksTelephone inventedLight bulb invented

Automobile invented

1879 Year in Venice tocreate The Venice Set

1880 London & Cornwall:Portraits, oils, w/c & pastels

1885 Delivered his now famous 10 O’Clock Lecture on Art at the

Princes Hall, London 1890 The Gentle Art of Making

Enemies published

1900 HartleyMacDonald-

WrightDalí

Lange

AbstractionFauvismCubismFuturism

DadaSurrealism

Acrylic paintCrayon

Airplane inventedWorld War I

Theory of RelativityGreat Depression

World War IIAtomic bomb

“A picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about

the end has disappeared”1903 Whistler passed away

James McNeil Whistler: Nocturne in Blue and Gold (1872-5) from his

Nocturne SeriesAKA Old Battersea Bridge

Hiroshige: Bamboo Yards, Kyōbashi Bridge (1857)

From 100 Famous views of Edo Series

100 Famous Views of Edo by Hiroshige : Owned by The Brooklyn Museum USA

The Museum's set of One Hundred Famous Views of Edo by Hiroshige was acquire in the 1930’s

Amazing that until the 1970’s this bound book of prints had remained unseen by the public

Although because of this lack of exposure, the pigments and dyes on the prints are still of exceptional quality

And due to the wonders of modern technology the prints in all their colourful glory have been digitally captured and are now available for viewing on the museum’s website

The original prints, now separated from the binding, are only shown to the public for brief periods of time to minimise their exposure to light and possible fading

This is a set of Japanese Cherrywood Woodblocks carved on both sides

This set was thought to have been created in the mid 1800’s

Inking up the woodblock

Carefully peeling the Print from the woodblock surface

The finished simple print

On pre-dampened paper the Baren toolIs rubbed in circles over the paper surface with the woodblock under it

This beautiful but wistful lady is thought to be derived from Whistler’s interpretation of Edgar Allen Poe’s poem in which the poet remembers his wife who died at a young age

Whistler has portrayed sadness in the manner of her stance and the almost ethereal atmosphere he has created. With muted tones and little perspective introduced apart from the railing she rests her hand on she appears almost to be floating in between time and space – just like Ukiyo-e

Lessons he undoubtedly learned from studying the many Japanese woodblock prints he had access to and once owned

Annabel Lee (1885/87) Pastel on Wood

Compare and contrast

Van Gogh Monet

Mode of production Oil on canvas Oil on canvas, pictorial motifs . landscapes.

Etchings, Lithographs, Oil on canvas and panel, watercolours

Design philosophy Expressing his own emotions . Showing everyday life.

By, expressing ones perceptions before nature

Art for Arts sake.

Aesthetic and social values

Deliberate usage of colour as a symbolic and expressive value to express, arbitrarily , personal views.

Impressionism, directly from nature. By the use of pure broken color to achieve brilliance and luminosity. From a large pre industrial society to a free enterprise capitalist one.

He wanted people to look at his works and appreciate them for their intrinsic and spiritual quality and not to look for deeper social or political meaning

Audience and client Working class, personal gain.

Working class All classes of people purchased or commissioned his work

Technologies implemented

Oil paint, canvas, While busily at work Vincent van Gogh sent Theo a long list of paint to be ordered from Tasset or L'Hote in Paris

Oil paint, canvas, brushes, natural environment.

Printmaking facilities for his etchings and lithographs, oil and w/c paint, wood panels and canvases for his paintings

James Abbott McNeill Whistler

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Image Linkshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Goghhttp://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/whistler/http://hiroshige.orghttp://www.brooklynmuseum.orghttp://www.gla.ac.uk