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How Japanese Woodblock Prints Taught Van Gogh to Flatten Space and Perspective
When art historians discuss Vincent van Gogh’s creative turning point, they almost universally point to his departure from Paris for the sunny south of France in February 1888. Yet the catalyst for that journey was not French Impressionism—it was a radical obsession with Japanese woodblock prints, known as ukiyo-e (“pictures of the floating world”). Van…