Artworks

1887 · F371 · JH1296

Flowering Plum Tree (after Hiroshige)

Flowering Plum Tree (after Hiroshige), 1887. Meaning, analysis, themes, technique, period and related Van Gogh artworks connected from Japanese Print Translations.

Flowering Plum Tree (after Hiroshige)
Oil on canvas multiple

Flowering Plum Tree (after Hiroshige) meaning and analysis

Flowering Plum Tree (after Hiroshige) belongs to the site node Japanese Print Translations. That node places the work inside Van Gogh's letters, places and changing painterly abilities rather than isolating it as a single image.

Its strongest period signal is Van Gogh Paris Period.

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Flowering Plum Tree (after Hiroshige). Pink blossoms, red sky — Hiroshige's original is delicate; he made it burn. Again the kanji border. He wrote that the Japanese taught him to 'think in flat colour planes.'