Why are impressionist painters such as Van Gogh, Manet, Monet and Degas all influenced by Ukiyo-e painting?

the essence of ukiyo-e floating world is "live in the moment", which is a genre painting that was regarded as the main trend of thought by ordinary people at that time, reflecting the vulgar life and paying attention to sensory stimulation.

The greatest influence on the European painting circle was Koshi Beizhai (176-1849), who studied the Dutch western perspective method to describe the landscape paintings of daily life. At the age of 7, he created a series of 46 landscape paintings "Thirty-six Scenes of Fuyue", the most widely circulated of which is Surfing in Kanagawa.

The characteristics of Ukiyo-e painting at this stage are: more decorative composition, simplified line arrangement, bright colors without mixing, flat coloring without shadow, and drawing materials from folk life.

At that time, western classical painting adopted fixed-point perspective method, which conformed to human visual authenticity and pursued "painting like an image". At that time, photography has appeared, and photography belongs to a single focus perspective. Its appearance has challenged the classical painting that pursues "painting like an image", because taking pictures is far more realistic than painting. Ukiyo-e painting has broken the rules of classical creation and brought new feelings to painters seeking innovation. Ukiyo-e painting adopts a non-rigorous and scientific perspective relationship, such as scattered perspective, shrinking perspective and overlapping perspective. Scattered perspective is a picture with no fixed focus. Most of China's meticulous paintings are scattered perspective, which puts scenery and people on a picture to pursue a complete decorative effect, such as The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival. In the perspective of shrinking forward, there is an image metaphor on Wikipedia: in the cartoon, the fist is exaggerated by the close-up, and the forearm is shortened and shortened. Overlapping perspective method is to put the foreground object on the background object, and use the front object to partially block the back object to express the sense of space.

Therefore, the emergence of Ukiyo-e painting was a great impact on European impressionist painting at that time. Apart from the appeal of the popularization of content, it was refreshing for them that the artistic composition method could show the perspective relationship and the distance relationship as well, the lines could bring the stereoscopic effect and the sense of volume as well as the shadowless flat painting, the bright colors were more decorative, and the multi-viewpoint and non-single subject made the picture accommodate a wider range of content.