Compositional and coloristic techniques applied in Hiroshige's "One-hundred-known species of Edo", had an enormous influence on such artists as Degas, Van Gogh, James Tissot and others.
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The most typical method, and was seen from the Japanese prints directly from a series of Hiroshige's "One-hundred-known species of Edo", is unexpected slices of objects and figures of the first plan, giving a fragmented picture of the whole. It was used by French artists of all directions. Particularly widely used this technique Degas. The unusual construction of the space in the paintings of Degas recalls Japanese prints. It is known that Vincent Van Gogh copied the engraving "Plum Garden in Kameydo" and "Downpour at Ohashi Bridge" from the series "One Hundred of Edo", studying the structure and compositional devices of Japanese prints. Stressing the sources of borrowing, Van Gogh surrounds their songs in Japanese characters, copied them with sheets of other series of Hiroshige. He creates works, which uses techniques typical of Japanese prints: the high point of view, a clear division into two planes, the apparent randomness of composite construction, fragmentation. In use by European artists of the late XIX - early XX century, the motives of irises, flowering plums, chrysanthemums, waterfalls, linearity, as well as a number of other techniques, images can be found direct analogy with Japanese prints, with works Hirosige.
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Prints Ando Hiroshige
Paintings by Vincent Van Gogh