European Modern painting would have had a quite other face without Japanese influences - this is art historian Kristina Piwecki's thesis that serves as a starting point to discuss East and West in art.
European Modern painting would have had a quite other face without Japanese influences - this is art historian Kristina Piwecki's thesis that serves as a starting point to discuss East and West in art. A wide range of the Modern great masters - Manet, Cézanne, Monet, Baugin, van Gogh, Bonnard, Vuillard - were inspired by Japanese motifs and techniques, such as the wood cut. In cross-over with the Western tradition, visual art took a new direction.
Kristina Piwecki (art historian)
