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This article sounds unnecessarily biased. All art has stylistic and thematic influences. Nothing in Van Gogh's experimentation with or usage of Japanese element

This article sounds unnecessarily biased. All art has stylistic and thematic influences. Nothing in Van Gogh's experimentation with or usage of Japanese elements looks egregious to me.

bretthopper 8y ago
Did you finish it? It comes to this conclusion: > Ultimately, however, the Japan-as-inspiration-narrative collapses under the weight of van Gogh’s staggering range. While many of the portraits from this period incorporate the cropped perspectives and jagged linearity in Japanese woodcuts of aristocrats and courtesans, they just as often borrow heavily from the hyper-individualized, introspective examples of the Dutch Golden Age portraiture of Rembrandt and Vermeer, painters van Gogh had long admired.
kazinator 8y ago
Some of it involves tracing the originals in a fair amount of detail. But that it seems that just what he wanted: the exact picture with its essential forms in the same places and proportions, but with his style over it, making possible an A-B comparison. There is a method to it.
- kprzen 8y ago
  I don't think there has to be a method for every little thing he did. Much of it isn't "production" that he was selling. He made a copy of something and it's still around, including some clumsy ones, like this one which does not have the energy of the original. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_works_of_Vincent_van_Gogh#/media/File:Van_Gogh_1881-04,_Etten_-_Sower_(after_Millet)_F_830_JH_1.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_works_of_Vincent_van_Gog... https://www.wikiart.org/en/jean-francois-millet/the-sower-1850 https://www.wikiart.org/en/jean-francois-millet/the-sower-18...
oceanman888 8y ago
-> Nothing in Van Gogh's experimentation with or usage of Japanese elements looks egregious to me. Can't read the article at work. But they hosted a exhibit on this subject at Tokyo where I saw some work of his. And this was my impression. It is closer to a "experimentation".

This article sounds unnecessarily biased. All art has stylistic and thematic influences. Nothing in Van Gogh's experimentation with or usage of Japanese elements looks egregious to me.

bretthopper 8y ago

Did you finish it? It comes to this conclusion: > Ultimately, however, the Japan-as-inspiration-narrative collapses under the weight of van Gogh’s staggering range. While many of the portraits from this period incorporate the cropped perspectives and jagged linearity in Japanese woodcuts of aristocrats and courtesans, they just as often borrow heavily from the hyper-individualized, introspective examples of the Dutch Golden Age portraiture of Rembrandt and Vermeer, painters van Gogh had long admired.

kazinator 8y ago

Some of it involves tracing the originals in a fair amount of detail. But that it seems that just what he wanted: the exact picture with its essential forms in the same places and proportions, but with his style over it, making possible an A-B comparison. There is a method to it.

kprzen 8y ago
I don't think there has to be a method for every little thing he did. Much of it isn't "production" that he was selling. He made a copy of something and it's still around, including some clumsy ones, like this one which does not have the energy of the original. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_works_of_Vincent_van_Gogh#/media/File:Van_Gogh_1881-04,_Etten_-_Sower_(after_Millet)_F_830_JH_1.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_works_of_Vincent_van_Gog... https://www.wikiart.org/en/jean-francois-millet/the-sower-1850 https://www.wikiart.org/en/jean-francois-millet/the-sower-18...

oceanman888 8y ago

-> Nothing in Van Gogh's experimentation with or usage of Japanese elements looks egregious to me. Can't read the article at work. But they hosted a exhibit on this subject at Tokyo where I saw some work of his. And this was my impression. It is closer to a "experimentation".