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Monday, November 8, 2010

Legion of Honor: Japanesque: the Japanese print... Impressionism, rating: 6/10

Hiroshige and Hokusai created well known and loved wood block prints mostly of landscapes in Japan, including many of Mt Fuji. Many Western artists took this art as inspiration. The exhibition shows a number of striking examples of this.

I never noticed this before, but the Legion of Honor has a number of good Dutch paintings, though the early Rembrandt has his stylistic touch, it lacks the aesthetic beauty of the Rembrandt paintings in the Rijksmuseum. Perhaps it's just the model.

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