Contextual Influences on Art and Design: Japanese Art

Japonisme

Japan has a unique art style that is very different from most artists way of showing art.Their way of showing art is much more simpler in characteristics such as structure especially when drawing people.Though the colours they mix in is much more artistic and beautiful then when other artists.

Before the Storm - Ito Shinsui

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The Letter - Mary Cassatt

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One famous Japanese artist who inspires me a lot into the japanese art and design is Takashi Murakami.His work,just like Japonisme,is also focused more on cartoon sketch and less realistic.Yet his art style is impressive and really beautiful.The colours which he makes on his art is very interesting and amazing.Takashi is an artist who was well known in the 1990s.His work seems to be based of the very popular japanese art of manga and anime.This style inspires me a lot because it is not extremely detailed in realism but yet is more focused on the cartoon side it has.One of my favourite works Takashi has is the one called "Tan Tan Bo Puking - Gero Tan".This work has loads of different variants of colours mixed in and they seem to form a creature.

Gero Tan - Takashi Murakami

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Picasso with Japonisme

One well known artist throughout the whole world who tried applying this art technique in his works is Picasso.Picassso found this art style interesting when his friend had showed him some of his engravings for this art.His works even included the cartoon feeling and the japanese words inprinted on them.Though he was more into paintings of Japonisme rather than engraving prints,he applied this style to his works.This painting mostly shows the face and how the colour is rather than the more cartoon style of Japonisme.The face of the cat seems like a beast and a legendary beast of japan.It also seems like it represents the beast japan uses for carnival.

Pablo Picasso Painting

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Nowadays japanese art is mostly focused in animation and comics rather than art style or design.To me the japanese art which is how it is now inspires me a lot because of the way the characteristics they have in it and the japanese prints.

The Great Wave - Katsushika Hokusai

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Sources

Thouarthistory,Japonisme (Online Site)

http://thouarthistory.blogspot.com/2009/03/japonisme.html