Sunday 2 January 2011

The Flowering Plumtree



Vincent Van Gogh, (1853 - 1890) Japonaiserie: The Flowering Plumtree,  (after Hiroshige), page 71, sourced from the Ukiyo-e Prints and the Impressionist Painters: Meeting of the East and the West, 2001



Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 - 1858) The Plum  Garden in Kameido from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, page 70, sourced  from the Ukiyo-e Prints and the Impressionist Painters: Meeting of the East and the West, 2001


Hiroshige_Van_Gogh_1 - courtesy of Wikimedia Commons


Vincent Van Gogh copied  Utagawa Hiroshige's woodblock print pertaining to The Plumtree Garden in Kameido whilst enhancing the colours and framing his oil painting with calligraphic characters borrowed from other prints.

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