Tarpkultūrinė Komunikacija: Rytų Azijos Dailės Poveikis Ir Fenomenologinių Idėjų Sklaida Postimpresionizmo Estetikoje
Cross-cultural Communication: Influence of East Asian Art and Phenomenological Background of Postimpressionism Aesthetic

Summary/Abstract: The author analyzes specific topic of cross-cultural communication between modernist painters of late XIX-early XX centuries and East Asian aesthetic, unveil Oriental influences in works of chosen European painters. Many Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters were attracted with Japanese prints, collected them and created various graphic work as well as the oil paintings that in their composition, color, and imagery were directly influenced by Japanese ukiyo-e prints. In this paper the main attention is focused toward the works of Cezanne and van Gogh whose apart quite superficial influence of colorful prints also has something common with much more subtle Chinese and Japanese ink painting and aesthetic of Daoism. The author argues that tradition of Daoism as well as Chinese and Japanese ink landscape painting helps to understand direct, pre-reflective look, perceiving a depth of surrounding world and things as they present themselves that could be seen on the artworks of Cezanne and van Gogh. Typical for those painters overpassing of various preconceptions, suspending of traditional viewpoint and ability to get astonished by simple and rude beauty of nature caused that phenomenological philosophers as Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty get interested and thoroughly analyzed their artworks.

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