Andrea, Becky and Kay’s Presentation
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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.
Similar to this
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