Origami

• Art and design
• Secondary Education

And what is Japanese about this?

Answer: the high horizon, the cropping and the prominent contours.

Which work would you leave out?

A

C

Artist Vincent van Gogh
Title Almond blossom
Date 1890
Collection Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

D

Artist Vincent van Gogh
Title The Garden of Saint Paul's Hospital ('Leaf-Fall')
Date 1889
Collection Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

B

Artist Vincent van Gogh
Title Flowering Plum Orchard (after Hiroshige)
Date 1887
Collection Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Give the pupils the following exercise: imagine you’re organising a mini-exhibition about Van Gogh and Japan. You can include three works. Which of these works would you leave out and why?
Let the pupils begin by looking closely. Then go to the next slide so they can answer the question with their phones.

Japonism

Vincent was certainly not alone in being inspired by Japan. At that time, Japanese things were all the rage. Japanese woodcuts were imported in great numbers.