Japanese color woodcut
 

When they say "Oriental Art", the first thing that comes to mind for most people - is a Japanese woodcut end XVII - the first half of the XIX century. That it is in the eyes of Europeans, the most striking features of the Oriental arts. Colorful, yet refined, exotic and clear on the content of engraving for the first time attracted the attention of artists and art lovers in the second half of XIX century. Japanese paintings attracted by Toulouse-Lautrec, Manet, Degas, Van Gogh. Getting it influenced the work of Russian and Soviet artists: Bilibio-on, Luba, Ostroumova-Lebedeva, Mitrokhin, Vereisk. Now Japanese prints has taken a worthy place among the major achievements of world art. Engravings of this period in contrast to the current is called classical.

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http://forum.roerich.info/showthread.php?t=1557

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For a month now in the Museum of Fine Arts Exhibition held in Nizhny Tagil Japanese prints. 200 unique etchings from the collection of Oleg Malakhov.
The exhibition is titled, THE LAST GENIUS Yoshitoshi Ukiyo-E
Zavidki taken from such collections.

http://tass-ural.ru/press/?id=1087

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     You can continue: Falileev, Voloshin, Falk, Borisov - Musatov, Dobuzhinsky, Grabar, Yakunchikova, Nyssa, Norstein, Vedernikov. Many of them were passionate collectors of Japanese prints.