The Impressionists and Japan - Art between East and West, the story of a craze

The Impressionists and Japan - Art between East and West, the story of a craze

MX021931
WRITTEN IN FRENCH

In the second half of the nineteenth century, the Impressionists, including Monet, Manet, Whistler, Gauguin, Van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec, were inspired by the simplicity and legibility of Japanese art to create their works. This style influenced architects, designers, stylists, photographers...
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Characteristics

Dimensions
26,9 x 29,4 x 3 cm
Artists
Edouard Manet (1832-1883), Claude Monet (1840-1926), Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
Museums
Musée d'Orsay, Musée de l’Orangerie
Art movements
Asiatic art, Impressionism
Reference
MX021931
EAN
9782809920208
Size of the book
Paperback with flap

The work and its artist

Edouard Manet (1832-1883)

Major French painter and engraver of the late 19th century. A precursor of modern painting, which he freed from academism, Édouard Manet is wrongly considered to be one of the fathers of Impressionism: he differs from it in that he is concerned about reality and makes little or no use of the new techniques of colour and the particular treatment of light.