6 Ways French Impressionism Was Shaped by Japanese Art

Did you know Japanese art had a particularly profound influence on French Impressionism? It shaped many of the Impressionist art movement’s most fundamental ideas and is referred to as Japonisme. Let’s look at the fundamental concepts borrowed by the Impressionists like Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Pissarro and more.
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World's Sunrise - Jimena Contreras

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What do you think about the influence Japanese woodblock prints had on French Impressionism? Do you have a favorite painting?