HIROSHIGE: Van Gogh’s Favorite Japanese Artist | PRA Presents: "100 Famous Views of Edo"

[@solsticesummer982]

Beautiful!! You know what they say… imitation is the highest form of flattery.

[@janatthiengsurin]

English narrative on relationship between Dutch painter and Japanese woodblock print with typical Chinese music background. Cosmopolitanism at its finest.

[@peterhaslund]

I visited Monet's house and was astonished at his collection of Japanese prints. Certainly Van Gogh was another impressionist hugely influenced by ukiyo-e

[@JoseDelacruz-wo7ne]

That was super fantastic! Thank you!

[@brutal7]

It's so funny, van gogh is my favorite artist and I just saw a Hiroshige print for the first time recently and instantly loved it an had to buy it. I didn't know he inspired van gogh so much till now.

[@MindScapePortal]

Very beautifully made! The narration, background music, visuals and information everything is on point 🔥

[@stilesthissell]

Thank you for the education!

[@sburgos9621]

Thanks for taking the time to create this video. You should be proud for your part in influencing artists who happen upon your videos.

[@joshii32]

Im currently writing my final work about the Japanese influence in Swiss art, this video helps alot

[@MusashiMiyashita]

Thank you for this video, I was gifted some of these prints from my grand auntie(?) and had no idea about the artist or any of the prints, just that they were absolutely beautiful. Thanks for teaching so much!

[@BINKYism]

The Brooklyn Museum of Art has a complete set of one of the original 6 printings of this series - it's amazing to see the actual prints with the metallic powders used to enhance the subtle use of color!

[@carolefreeman2544]

I was very familiar with Hokusai and I did know that Van Gogh was influenced by Japanese Art later in his life, but I did not know much about Hiroshige. Thank you so much for this presentation. I noticed how the use of primary colour is so visual in his art. It is quite striking. 🥰.

[@rosalynmoyle3766]

Thank you for presenting this history. It was never included in any of the art history I had at school and I hope it is now in the lessons. It is better late than never to honour this artist and his obvious influence both in style and philosophy.

[@Blakeneyd]

Beautiful presentation, thank you for this. There is something very contemporary about the way he depicts people gathering. They may be pictures of the floating world, but they seem very real to me.

[@jonathanminshull9958]

Thank you. Really enjoyed all the visuals and comparisons in the video. I think acrylic paints were first invented in the 1950s, so tricky for Van Gogh to have used them, though.

[@707bear3]

To be honest Van Gogh's kanji calligraphy was not bad. If he had an opportunity to learn from Hiroshige himself, maybe his life might end better than the reality.

[@PeoplesRepublicOfArt]

I like to believe that Van Gogh would have been very happy in Japan and found plenty of inspiration in the beautiful landscapes and fascinating culture. Who knows what incredible artwork the world is missing because Van Gogh never made it to Japan.

[@davejones732]

@@PeoplesRepublicOfArt Sad to say but Doubtful very doubtful When Vincent lived with his brother Theo after a while his room was a pig pen. Who knows what was going on inside his mind perhaps Autistic at best. deeply troubled Manic highs and lows. May he Rest In Peace as we stand in awe of his genius. Tear stained sleeve.

[@alequiros6339]

First paint like he painted and we talk afterwards

[@cecileroy557]

@@alequiros6339 What a foolish comment. You don't have to BE an artist to discuss art!

[@katsugarkanemonroe762]

A thourough beautiful look at Japanese art, culture, history. I've learned so much from this doco. Thanks for your stunning work as a film maker. It's very good. Cheers

[@eliseetoe2491]

Incredible video with mandinka kora music in the background. Blessings!

[@davidpovedaruiz2300]

Thank you for sharing this with everyone I love his work

[@sophiasmith5069]

Magnifique !

[@pikchureman]

He is the original "photo" essayist. You should explore how he influenced that medium. Foreground narrative elements, splitting composition, thirds in the vertical, decisive moments, wide angle depth, etc. ? He is a genius photographer without a camera.

[@oracle-ld1jn]

Oh my god, brilliant pictures

[@hypnotic72]

Thanks for the video by the way, I thoroughly enjoyed the information and the art

[@Mauroagustincruz]

Que buen video! tenes el sol de Argentina! Abrazo

[@MICMICYAMM]

Thank you so much for this! People needs to see this more.

[@robertafierro5592]

Thumbs up and i subscribed as well! Keep.up.the Great Work!

[@velcrobug59]

Very well done! A couple of times I teared up. Choice of music was excellent too.

[@arcadia4691]

I've studied Hiroshige's life, and his art for some time. It was Hokusai, another painter, who got Hiroshige into this art form.

[@PeoplesRepublicOfArt]

A video on Hokusai is in the works. It'll be out sometime in May :)

[@arcadia4691]

@@PeoplesRepublicOfArt I'll keep an eye out for it.

[@based_prophet]

was his teacher I presume these forms was passed threw houses but very few stood to the world like this cat did to r boy van g

[@Dancerfashionartista]

Awesome video. Thanks for all the info and inspo. Great musical choices

[@SylvesterLazarus]

It is soo strange how I never noticed the paintings in Van Gogh's backgrounds. They just felt like random scribbles behind the characters, so I feel really dumb now for never seeing those properly. Van Gogh is just becoming more and more genius for me..

[@patriciaburns1033]

Oh my giddy aunt, such beautiful scenes and the colours are incredible, even a turtle on a rope watching the sun set is spellbinding, I'm a fan of Hokusai and I have copied a few of his for my own walls and now I must have a Hiroshige to join them, he is an incredible artist, I've seen rain depicted before but he is able to accurately depict a monsoon, there is so much life and colour packed into these pictures, this is gonna be an obsession for a short while I think, you have made an awesome vid and I'm very grateful thank you, just one thing the music made me think of the romantic parts of seventies detective shows ie; KOJAK, Starsky and Hutch, you get the drift, many thanks for introducing this artist to me x

[@PeoplesRepublicOfArt]

Thank you so much Patricia! I really appreciate the kind words :)

[@adamjnotthecongressmanschi7026]

im gonna start saying oh my giddy aunt

[@patriciaburns1033]

@@adamjnotthecongressmanschi7026 I've actually got a Giddy Aunt and I'm also probably one myself lol

[@cheriesnakedancer3293]

me, too! 🤎

[@cheriesnakedancer3293]

@@adamjnotthecongressmanschi7026 me, too! 🤎

[@g.b.4269]

Golden video🌄

[@laurewinkelmans9501]

I always find it cool when a favorite artist of mine was a fan of another artist I love.

[@DraganaMitic-m5m]

Malobrojni su slikari koji su duže vremena izdržali u impresionizmu. Hvala na prikazanim slikama u ovom broju.

[@ranjanjoshi3454]

Thanks

[@GiantGroundSlothAvo]

It's like watching Summoning Salt cover art. I appreciate your work!

[@iahelcathartesaura3887]

Wonderful!! I have a few of these images saved in my device gallery 🧡. From years ago. Love this, many thanks! This is extremely core favorite stuff for me. You just made my day and it was a rough day in some ways. 🥰😍

[@ericswain4177]

Awsome ! would like to see the different styles and types of Japanese art over time.

[@PeoplesRepublicOfArt]

More Japanese art videos to come Eric. Thanks for the support!

[@based_prophet]

look up the arts miyomoto did on his wiki it's shadow ink method I beleave it starts with drawing random dots to form a imagine out of no expectation a few greats exist its like paint n shade by number dots but you have no dots or numbers just ink n white paper n various dot sizes drawn in one effort

[@based_prophet]

miyomoto drew shrikes cause he knew they impaled there prey tho how normal they r they follow there path n not stray he also drew the murder n the day owl crows surrounding a owl out of place on back of drawing the crows r confused n looking around n 2 crows r missing lol tho the owl seem so out number n out of his world in trapped

[@based_prophet]

he drew the geese to show there true happy nature but knowing one can break the human arm the key to fighting in swords men ship of his school 'tearing at the corners'

[@pprehn5268]

Gratitude for linking them together so well.

[@cjKin]

Beautiful paradise

[@Purplelightningtiger]

Ahhh very beautiful stuff never heard of the guy but have witnessed his artworks on gallery’s and on Instagram. Had no idea he was the father of wood block printing. He does amazing things and love his use of yellow, red, green and browns 😀. Also very cool how shows a lot of perspective in his paintings.

[@carinamoses2704]

The deep blue of the water areas he depicts is very striking and conveys mystical associations of royalty, majesty and heaven in an especially dynamic, expressive way. It's also beautiful on its own terms...thanks for sharing the work of this great artist.

[@jama1155]

Thank you for bringing this to my attention.

[@TheArthead]

Thanks, bro. Informative.

[@Bonnieham]

Amazing to see so many of his prints. The video spoke as if they were paintings. The colours in each print were ‘painted’ onto the flat face of a wooden block that had all the light colours carved out into recesses; then the rice paper was laid on top and carefully pressed onto the block to soak up the colours. My question is, Did Hiroshige paint an original on paper as a guide for the printers to know how to colour the wood block? And, if so, are any of these in existence?

[@Dino_Medici]

Brother ur channel is goated wow

[@solsticesummer982]

Wow! I didn’t know Klimt painted Kierra Knightly!! Look at that painting!! 💕

[@yolainesene8691]

Thank you

[@hypnotic72]

I love this song! I have a few tracks where artists sampled it. What is the song that you play in the 100 veiws?

[@davejones732]

Dude. Arigato!

[@jacekmachowski4722]

Good morning. Could you give me the source of the woodcut that appears at 1:41? Or, if you do not have a source, at least the author and/or title of the work?

[@indi.element]

Apologies for bombarding but I’m writing these comments in real time as I experience this music. Please let me know what every. single. song. in this video is because wowowow. Eternal gratitude. Infinite thanks. May abundant love and blissings reign upon you.

[@PeoplesRepublicOfArt]

I put the music portion in it's own video with all the songs in the video description: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYfFgKyEq7eJsK8

[@mariadange06]

Amazing to see where Van Gogh's inspiration came from. I've never heard this before about where he found his vibrant style. Correction: it was the British not Americans regarding opening Trade.

[@Musicienne-DAB1995]

Was it not both? I've definitely read about Perry's demand to the Japanese on behalf of the United States.

[@mariadange06]

@@Musicienne-DAB1995 Initially the British, plus didn't the British rule US until the civil war?

[@Musicienne-DAB1995]

@@mariadange06 Oh, good point.

[@maddermarvin]

The song at the end- did mac demarco steal it with his song "chamber of reflections"? sounds like the exact same melody to me...

[@andrewbellavie795]

fascinating how he used red in the sky near the horizon

[@indi.element]

Omg and the song at 17:28 wow. What is that? This is an incredible playlist.

[@PeoplesRepublicOfArt]

"It's Impossible Again" by Piero Piccioni

[@kevinlee3463]

I am five min into this and holy, s'#t , great

[@1stutterafter]

What’s the background song?

[@abbyeagle1]

Does it infringe copyright if you copy a painting?

[@MikeBanks2003]

There were no acrylics in the days Van Goh made his paintings. There were watercolours, oils, poster colours (cheap water colours) tempura, gouache, crayons, pastels, coloured pencils and a kind of dab-on paint using a kind of tree gum dissolved in an organic solvent and powdered pigments that never quite caught on. But no acrylics.

[@debcarsonart]

Did they have acrylic paint back then? I am fairly sure they did not. Anyhow, nice vid, new sub.

[@genevievedolan1288]

I noticed that, which kind of weakens the veracity of the rest of the video, which is a shame

[@davejones732]

I can't find Hiroshiga's 2 lovers meeting on a bridge...can you?

[@ferth2315]

Good to know if Van Gogh were alive today he’d be a weeb.

[@Bpl541]

I love Hiroshige’s rain pictures and I was enjoying this until I saw the poor turtle.😭

[@kuntsnotsee4817]

whats the song at 15 minutes in

[@indi.element]

This is a fantastically in-depth and digestible gist of who he was and what he shared. Thank you for this! Also pleeease tell me, what song is it that plays at 14:24? It’s giving me feels that I haven’t felt in a long time.

[@PeoplesRepublicOfArt]

Thank you Jaylyn! The song is "The Word ii" by Shigeo Sekito

[@nimitz1739]

2:19 good video. But Van Gogh did not use acrylic paint. That wasn’t invented till the 1930s. He used oil paint

[@marjoriemoyer3137]

I noticed the same thing.

[@frankstock2]

😊

[@artlovervictoria]

Acrylic?

[@Dino_Medici]

1:53 🥰🤓🤓🌞

[@understandingthetimes4544]

I thought i heard van gogh was an apprentice to a wood carver, thats why i always thought his paintings looked like wood carvings

[@Geralds4058]

Had to throw chamber of reflection in there

[@charliewrites]

Excuse me...Van Gogh used "Acrylic" in his painting? HUH!!!? considering acrylic wasn't invented until the 1930's sometime and wouldn't find itself in the art world until the 1950's,then exploding on the abstract/pop are scene in 1960's...this is extraordinary. Van Gogh must have been a time traveler... Good video. good info, really good music that syncs up well with content.. But really Acrylics in the 19th century????? you might want to clear that up in this video..that's like saying Shakespeare used Sharpies .l.

[@fabiodeoliveiraribeiro1602]

The documentary is interesting. But the soundtrack that accompanies the exhibition of the artist's works made me a little drowsy.

[@xyzllii]

Japonica was the fashion at the time...with may artists not just VAN GO !!! van Gogh being drawn in. Eileen Gray got into lacquer work...Lautrec block printing and so on.

[@Musicienne-DAB1995]

I believe the narrator already points out how other artists were influenced by japonisme.

[@X_Marks-u7r]

Van Gogh was post impressionist.

[@SUPERNOUVEAU]

Van Gogh never used acrylic on canvas (2:22). Liquitex was invented in 1963. It's the first acrylic paint. A weird misinformation in the video.

[@DraganaMitic-m5m]

Sezan

[@matthewdegroot4477]

Namu Amida Butsu

[@jedsparks7324]

Not acrylic

[@PeoplesRepublicOfArt]

Correct. He painted with oil, not acrylic

[@tthomas184]

My understanding is that Hiroshige would have come up with the design, the colors of the print were chosen by the printmaker, similar to how comic books are done today. And their status in Japan was also similar to comic books, low brow art for the masses.

[@PeoplesRepublicOfArt]

That was the case after his death, however during his career he gave very specific instructions along with the reference work. Ukiyo-e was definitely for the masses, which is probably why it became so influential and found it's way to Europe. You can actually buy Hiroshige prints from his lifetime for a relatively reasonable price because they were mass produced.

[@tthomas184]

@@PeoplesRepublicOfArt Thanks for that additional information. I was a bit disappointed when I heard he didn't choose his colors, so it's good to learn that he was involved in that stage of the process .

[@Frisbieinstein]

The fine art of the time was much more polished. But it tended to be very cliched.

[@entropyfun]

Huh, Van Gogh was an anime fan.

[@ypchartrand9787]

I would have appreciated Koto or other forms of traditional music to accompany this wonderful presentation. I feel it would have been a more appropriate match for this exceptionally seminal Japanese artist; I simply had to turn off the audio how discordant with the evanescent beauty of Hiroshige artistic sensibility it became at length.

[@PeoplesRepublicOfArt]

Thank you for the feedback! I went the non-traditional route of adding songs that moved me and reminded me of the atmosphere of a Hiroshige print. This is of course subjective so I don't expect it to be for everyone. Hope you enjoyed the video nonetheless

[@calsavestheworld]

You'd think he'd look up how to pronounce some of the names...

[@selwynr]

It is not "go". Look up the pronunciation. Why do people insist on pronouncing his name incorrectly? He was Dutch, not French.

[@bio-plasmictoad5311]

He won't of used acrylic paint. It wasn't made in that time.

[@aquelpibe]

2:20 Did you say Van Gogh used "oil and acrylic"???? Acrylic paint was invented some fifty years later. I could not keep watching.

[@trippytanuki1171]

Surprised by the lack of weeb jokes in the comments

[@golira19]

The one piece is real

[@tanyaleef5138]

Please change Music track

[@MisterBones223]

Van Gogh was a weeaboo before it was invented 😂

[@Susan-nm3sx]

Why cant Americans say gogh properly? It’s not go….its more like goff? It’s so irritating.

[@MrSoso1050]

Anime culture has destroyed what ones was the best examples of art itself just pure beauty.

[@MrSoso1050]

It's really a shame Japan is no longer associated with what it was

[@patriciaburns1033]

PS I see that Hiroshige inspired every last one of the impressionists, bloody rip off merchants

[@PeoplesRepublicOfArt]

I do believe his influence pushed European art to interesting new heights of creativity and color.

[@RyanSauvageau-t8s]

🎇🎴🎆 chrys 🪷 mum ❤

[@florianrobin1054]

thank you