Van Gogh Flowering Plum Tree After Hiroshige Cutting Board

Vincent Van Gogh Flowering Plum Tree After Hiroshige Japonaiserie Fine Art Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Post-Impressionist painter whose work had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art. His output includes portraits, self portraits, landscapes and still lifes of cypresses, trees in bloom, wheat fields and sunflowers. He often painted outdoors, directly from nature, rather than in a studio. Vincent Van Gogh made copies of two Hiroshige prints. He altered their colours and added borders filled with calligraphic characters he borrowed from other prints. Japonaiserie (English: Japanesery) was the term the painter Vincent van Gogh used to express the influence of Japanese art. Artists such as Manet, Degas and Monet, followed by Van Gogh, began to collect the colour wood-block prints called ukiyo-e prints. The works of Japanese print makers, Hiroshige and Hokusai greatly influenced Van Gogh, both for the beautiful subject matter and the style of flat patterns of colors, without shadow. Van Gogh collected hundreds of Japanese prints and likened the works of the great Japanese artists, like Hiroshige, to those of Rembrandt, Hals, and Vermeer. Art by Vincent van Gogh Movement: Post-Impressionism Artistic decorative vintage floral Asian style landscape painting featuring an oriental orchard with a blossoming plum tree in spring.