How Japanese Art Influenced Vincent Van Gogh

Japonism in the 19th Century Europe

Vincent Van Gogh’s Portrait With a Japanese Painting in the Background (CNN)

If you are a fan of Vincent Van Gogh, you may have noticed strange elements that exist in his paintings. Hidden in corners of his paintings are certain “oriental” elements that seem out of place with what the audience would expect from a 19th-century European painter’s painting. In his most famous painting Self-Portrait with…