while there were no major political conflicts in Europe between 1872 and 1914, artistic and intellectual battles were waged which generated the new era of modernism in which art began to explore the subtleties of individual perception and ultimately, explored itself. / so what should i dream of being studying art abroad? really, really ridiculous : )
subject matter underwent a great change as artists began to respond to the external influences of foreign cultures and the internal influence of their own subconscious. some artists were absorbed with the idea of returning through art to a pre0industrialized, non-scientific order.
1854: Japanese government signed a treaty with Commodore Perry of the united states Navy agreeing to export to the open market of the west.
the exquisiteness and handcrafted perfection of the Japanese objects contracted strongly with the cheap, mass-produced articles being turned out in the wake of the Industrial Revolution. Japan, so long hidden and remote, offered a new sensibility to artists rebelling against their Industrialized circumstances.
the influence from Japan on this surge of printmaking was twofold. for not only did it change the way art looked. it changed what was expressed. Japanese ukiyo-e prints, by their very definition, altered the Western consciousness of art. Ukiyo-e "the floating world." the world of actors, the theater, pleasures. sex.a world rarely depicted seriously in the West.
from his earliest years Riviére had the desire to become an artist."I spent my days drawing and paiting,seeing my little store of money gradually disappearing, without hope of renewing it. Fortunately, an important change was going to allow me to provide more for my maintenance and let me know about a whole world of which i knew nothing": Chat Noir.
" the epileptic, baudelarian, and anti-philistine red herrings "
documents d'art chinois de la collection osvald siren (1925)
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