Japonisme

opera by Giacomo Puccini

thumb|Young Ladies Looking at Japanese Objects by the painter James Tissot in 1869 is a representation of the popular curiosity about all Japanese items that started with the opening of the country in the [[Meiji Restoration of the 1860s.]] Japonisme is a French term that refers to the popularity and influence of Japanese art and design among a number of Western European artists in the nineteenth century following the forced reopening of foreign trade with Japan in 1858. Japonisme was first described by French art critic and collector Philippe Burty in 1872.

Painting by Vincent van Gogh

drawing style

orchestral composition by Claude Debussy

painting by Claude Monet, 1875

painting by Vincent van Gogh

term Vincent van Gogh used to express the influence of Japanese art

1894 painting by George Hendrik Breitner, Rijksmuseum

opera by Camille Saint-Saëns

painting by Alfred Stevens

painting by Bertalan Székely

(1888 - 1891) monthly magazine of Japanese art

painting by Richard Edward Miller

hybrid artistic style

Japanese academic