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Bonjour. Thank you very much for your very interesting comments on Tom Thomson, Alfred Sisly, Lucien Pisarro. Very interesting.
Owing to you, I became to know and see Tom Thomson's works. Tom Thomson and canadian painters are famous in Japan? I am interested in your heavy book on Tom Thomson. I hope that one day, you translate this book for Japanese readers. For my eyes, Tom Thomson's works are very natural and rich in colors.

2010/9/28(火) 午前 1:37 [ francophile762004 ]

On British Impressionism, I am interested in it, even if French Impressionism is very known. I like French Impressionism, because it was very much influenced by Japonism and that it shows Japanese style reinterpreted in european style. I like Japanese traditional style, so especially I like european Impressionis paintings which show concretely Japanese culture or Japanese style, for exemple James Tissot(French painter)' <Young Lady Holding Japanese Objects>.

2010/9/28(火) 午前 1:53 [ francophile762004 ]

I like also Van Gogh's <Portrait of Pere Tanguy> where we can see Ukiyoe.
I think that without Japonism, the European Impressionism would not have been born.
I would like to translate into Korean, if I find French books on European Impressionism paintings where Japanese culture appear(for exemple, Ichimatsu dolls, Japanese dolls, women in Kimono, Japanese umbrellas, Japanese objects, so on).

2010/9/28(火) 午前 1:56 [ francophile762004 ]

I'll also try to find British Impressionism paintings where Japanese style or Japanese objects apprea, as like many French Impressionism paintings of Gogh, Monet, Manet, Tissot, so on.

2010/9/28(火) 午前 1:59 [ francophile762004 ]

Thank you for your visit with such a fashionable picture. I can identify his pictures. He is born in France but had atelier in London. He is a skillful painter. Everything is quite authentic.

2010/9/28(火) 午前 11:42 [ fminorop34 ]

Another painter, strongly influenced, is James Whisler.

Look at his portrait from backside. This is Japanese.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Whistler_James_Mother_of_Pearl_and_Silver_The_Andalusian_1888-1900.jpg

He was impressed with Ukiyo-e. For Example Hishikawa Moronobu"s painting.

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8F%B1%E5%B7%9D%E5%B8%AB%E5%AE%A3

2010/9/28(火) 午前 11:55 [ fminorop34 ]

Mary Cassatt, American painter of French origin is a fanatic admirer of ukiyo-e print. He produced many Japanisme painting.

For examole
You can sense Japanese element in her "THe Lamp"
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cassatt_Mary_The_Lamp_1891.jpg

2010/9/28(火) 午後 0:07 [ fminorop34 ]

By the way, are you not interested in Impressionsts political attitude toward Alfred Dreyfus. They are considered to be progressive. But not all Impressionist are liberal.

2010/9/28(火) 午後 0:33 [ fminorop34 ]

Good evening. How are you? I have been so busy. Even this weekend, I have to work(translation for French magazine). I am so sorry for my late reply. Alredy in November! Thank you very much for your commets and recommanded sites. I am going to visit these sites, I am very excited to get new informations on Japonism and Ukiyoe owing to you. Thank you. I am very interested in Japonism. I think that Japan and France / Japan and UK love each other. That's good. :)

2010/11/5(金) 午後 11:00 [ francophile762004 ]

I am not european, but I like also Japonism. The beautiful art has no frontier, I think. As you know, my Japonism especially is Yukiko san. I take her photos and my painting of her everywhere. I show them to French people with who I work. One French asked me in French "Oh, she is very pretty. You painted your daughter? Your hudsband is Japanese?" So I laughted and replied "Thank you, but she is my favorite Japanese doll presented in a Japanese book.

2010/11/5(金) 午後 11:04 [ francophile762004 ]

I have never seen more beautiful doll than her, so I like painting her to show to people of different countries. We live now in globalization era, so I am not Japanese, but I like this Japanese doll as I like French language as a South Korean. The beautiful thing has no frontier." :)

2010/11/5(金) 午後 11:04 [ francophile762004 ]

And thank you very much for having me told on Impressionsts political attitude toward Alfred Dreyfus. I did not know, but I am very interested in it. I have searched the English site on this suject.
http://blogs.princeton.edu/wri152-3/f05/eharwood/the_end_of_an_era_the_dreyfus_affair_and_impressio.html

2010/11/5(金) 午後 11:13 [ francophile762004 ]

This site is useful for understanding Impressionism and Dreyfus. I know the relationship between Emile Zola and Dreyfus, but I did not know Impressionist political attitude toward Dreyfus. Thank you very much for this new subjet.

2010/11/5(金) 午後 11:16 [ francophile762004 ]

Good Morning. Thank you for your comments. I am surprised again with your enthusiasm to Japanese dolls. I think your skill has been greatly improved. Yukiko-san is looking more and more elegant.

2010/11/6(土) 午前 9:23 [ fminorop34 ]

And thank you for introducing a site which I have never known. The author's description of Dreyfus affair and Impressionists. I learn some new things about it.

2010/11/6(土) 午前 9:27 [ fminorop34 ]

Yes. Renoir was an outspoken reactionary. He was always negative toward progressive views in 19th century. I think he must be classified as a court painter in 18th century. He was negative on women's education.

2010/11/6(土) 午前 9:34 [ fminorop34 ]

Degas and Renoir were the most prominent anti-Dreyfus. Degas was rather eccentric during the affair. Mary Cassatt admired Degas and his friend. Some gossipy people suspected their romantic relation. But she was pro-Dreyfus. Degas stopped to talk with her.

2010/11/6(土) 午前 9:43 [ fminorop34 ]

Pissaro was a victim. Though his painting is modest, he was politically progressive, sometime radical(anarchist) and that "damned Jew". He might have spent hard time.

2010/11/6(土) 午前 9:54 [ fminorop34 ]

Emile Zola was a champion of the impressionist movement. But they are not always loyal to Zola's opinion. The Jewish problem is the toughest problem for us to understand. August Rodin is anti-Freyfus.

2010/11/6(土) 午後 1:29 [ fminorop34 ]

Good evening. Thank you very much for your kind comments. Every time I see Yukiko san in the book, I am very happy with her very pretty face. One day, I hope to see her in Japan.

2010/11/22(月) 午後 9:40 [ francophile762004 ]

I have studied Ichimatsu dolls' history. I heard that Ichimatsu dolls were inspired by a very famous Kabuki actor who played a role as girl. Ichimatsu dolls have, in general, white powdered face as like Kabuki actors. And Ichimatsu dolls are also the symbol of friendship between Japan and USA.

2010/11/22(月) 午後 9:41 [ francophile762004 ]

Right now, I don't have Yukiko san, real Ichimatsu doll, but of course I will buy her when I see her in Japan. Even if I cannot see and find real doll Yukiko san, I will continue to paint her in order to present her pretty face in the world. It is my great pleasure. Many French and South Koreans that I know told me that Yukiko san is very pretty. I am happy to have heard that.

2010/11/22(月) 午後 9:44 [ francophile762004 ]

And thak you very much for your very interesting informations on Impressionist painters and Drefus Affaires. Especially, it is surprising that Renoir was negative toward women's education, because his paintings showed women who played the piano or who danced ballet.

2010/11/22(月) 午後 9:47 [ francophile762004 ]

I would like to learn why the Jewish was hated in Europe including in France. And for Asian, I cannot distinguish the appearence of Jewish and the appearence of Europeans or Western people. In France, the Jewish was victime in the area of Government of Vichy when France was occupied by Nazi. This problem is a little sensitive, I heard.

2010/11/22(月) 午後 9:54 [ francophile762004 ]