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 r

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.