The Story of Van Gogh and Japanese Ukiyo-e Painting "Kamiya Meiwu Shop"

The essence of "Ukiyo-e Painting" floating world is "live in the moment", which was regarded as the main trend of thought by ordinary Japanese at that time, reflecting the common life and paying attention to sensory stimulation.

Ukiyo-e painting has a unique style. At that time, the greatest influence on European painting circles was Koshi Beizhai (176-1849), who studied the Dutch western perspective method to describe the landscape painting 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.

(II) The influence of Ukiyo-e painting style on Van Gogh's painting

Van Gogh is a post-impressionist master who is greatly influenced by Ukiyo-e painting. Influenced by Impressionism and Japanese Ukiyo-e painting during his stay in Paris, he changed the gloomy painting style in the past and the drawing board began to brighten up. Seurat's pointillism also influenced Van Gogh. Adjacent colors were fused by human vision, making the picture brighter. Regular small block stippling gives people a finer, more orderly and three-dimensional feeling.

The Plum Garden in Kameyama, copied by Van Gogh, is one of the masterpieces of Edo Scenic Spots by Hiroshige Gechuan in his later years. It is composed by the far-near method, and Wolong Plum is arranged in the foreground, and you can see the distant view through the plum trees. The space slice method of ukiyo-e painting gives people an incomplete image and a strong visual tension.

Time: 1857 (4 years of Anzheng)

Specification: 44 × 615mm

Name: A hundred scenic spots in Edo-Kamedo Meiwu Shop (Ukiyo-e painting)

Van Gogh's wave-by-wave works are greatly influenced by Ukiyo-e painting style. Let's take a look at the stories behind the painter's works. Promote the ideological truth and event opportunity and source power behind the creator!

(3) Love of Cherry Blossoms-Understanding

This painting depicts a Gu Mei, called Wolongmei, in Kameha Meiyuan, which is the first famous tree in Edo and a popular place for literati. Guangzhong boldly composed the composition by far and near method, and arranged Wolong plum in the foreground in a big way. Van Gogh, a Dutch post-impressionist master, copied this painting because he was attracted by such composition, sense of distance and pattern combination. Indeed, there is no such composition in western Europe that magnifies the foreground and emphasizes the sense of distance. Through the plum tree, you can see some people walking in the plum garden, and their bodies are very small, which is of course an exaggeration.

students copy works

Beijing art activist yy and many others participated in the collection exhibition of ukiyo-e painting Mary Ainsworth in Osaka City Art Museum in Japan this year, which may be the most comprehensive interpretation of ukiyo-e painting style I have ever seen. From the flesh painting (hand-painted) ink painting, Dan painting (red print), lacquer painting, floating painting, brocade painting and blue painting, from Wu Ju Qing Bei, Suzuki Harunobu's simple lines, to Katsushika Hokusai, which is highly sought after by European impressionists. Utagawa Kuniyoshi and Utagawa Hiroshige may be universal love, while Kitagawa Utamaro's biography is a wonderful source of Ukiyo-e (the ultimate secular).

In 1934, Mr. Lu Xun wrote to his Japanese friend Yamamoto Chuzhi: "As for Japanese ukiyo-e painters, when I was young, I liked Beizhai, but now I like Guangzhong, and then I like people who sing songs." Then he added, "But in my opinion, I'm afraid it's Beizhai that suits the general taste of China people.