The story of Van Gogh and Japanese ukiyo-e painting "Kamiya Meiwu Store"

The essence of Ukiyo-e painting is "living in the present", which is a genre painting regarded as the mainstream trend of thought by ordinary Japanese people at that time, reflecting vulgar life and paying attention to sensory stimulation.

Ukiyo-e painting has a unique style. At that time, the greatest influence on European painting was Ke Xibei Zhai (1760 ─ 1849), who studied the Dutch western perspective and used it to describe the scenery in daily life. At the age of 70, he created 46 series of landscape paintings "Thirty-six Scenes of Fuyue", among which Surfing in Kanagawa is the most popular.

The characteristics of Ukiyo-e painting at this stage are: the composition is more artistic and decorative, the line arrangement is simplified, the colors are bright and not mixed, the colors are dull and shadowless, and they are based on folk life.

At that time, western classical painting adopted fixed-point perspective method, which was in line with human visual authenticity and pursued "painting as it is". At that time, photography had already appeared, and photography belonged to single-focus perspective. Its appearance challenges the pursuit of "painting like an image" in classical painting, because taking pictures is far more real than painting.

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

Van Gogh belongs to the 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 become brighter. Seurat's stippling also influenced Van Gogh. Adjacent colors are fused by human vision, making the picture brighter. Regular small stippling gives people a finer, more orderly and more stereoscopic feeling.

The Beautiful Garden of God copied by Van Gogh is one of the masterpieces of Edo Hundred Scenes by Gechuan Bozhong in his later years. Using the far-near method, Wolong plums are arranged in the foreground with great fanfare, and the distant view can be seen through the plum trees. The spatial slicing method of ukiyo-e painting gives people an incomplete image with strong visual tension.

Time: 1857 (four years of Anzheng)

Specification: 440× 615mm

Name: One hundred scenic spots in Edo-Kamiya Meiwupu (Ukiyo-e)

Van Gogh's wave-by-wave works are greatly influenced by the ukiyo-e style. Let's look at the story behind the painter's works. Promote the ideological truth behind the creator and the opportunity and source of the event!

(3) Love of Sakura Flowers-Interpretation of "Shengong Meiwu Store"

This painting depicts an ancient beauty of Kamiko Meiyuan, called Wolongmei, which is the first tree in Edo and a popular place for literati. Guangzhong boldly used the far-near method to compose the composition, and arranged Wolong plum in the foreground with great fanfare. Van Gogh, a Dutch post-impressionist master, copied this painting because he was attracted by such composition, sense of distance and pattern combination. Indeed, western Europe does not have such a magnified prospect, and it emphasizes the composition of distance. Through the plum tree, you can see some people walking in the plum garden. Their bodies are very small, which is of course an exaggeration.

Students copy works

Beijing art activist yy and others participated in the Mary Ainsworth Collection Exhibition of Ukiyo-e Painting in Osaka City Art Museum this year, which is perhaps the most comprehensive interpretation of Ukiyo-e painting style I have ever seen. From flesh painting (hand-painted) ink painting, painters painting (red seal), lacquered painting, floating painting, brocade painting and blue painting, from Suzuki Harunobu's five games of clearing the north and simple lines to Geshi Beizhai, which is highly sought after by European impressionists. Utagawa's national righteousness and Utagawa's Guangzhong may be universal love, while Kitagawa Utamaro's biography is a wonderful source of Ukiyo-e painting (the ultimate secular).

1934, Mr. Lu Xun wrote to his Japanese friend Yamamoto Chuzhi: "As for Japanese ukiyo-e painters, I liked Beizhai when I was young, now I like Guangzhong, and then I like singers." Then he added, "But in my opinion, I'm afraid that only the North House can meet the general taste of China people.