lap bag. The idea was to make this look like a stamped print designed to hold goods that are shipped. The concept suggests that the image is part of a worldwide cul - tural exchange and dialogue. I know with today’s Facebook, I have friends from most parts of the world and I get packages from far away. I read that some Japanese Woodblock prints made their way to the West as wrapping paper for the purchased goods. The innovative approach of Jap- anese art changed art history.
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2023 Medium: Duplex Printed Ink / 18mm Silk Twill Size: 36” x 36” “You know what I think of Japa - nese art? I have a dream of it.” - Claude Monet This quote expresses the French artist and the founder of Impres- sionism, Monet’s admiration and fascination with Japanese art, especially the woodblock prints that he collected and displayed in his home. Here are some of the most fa- mous artists that have ever lived who were influenced by Jap - anese art: Vincent van Gogh, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Mary Cassatt, Paul Gauguin, James McNeill Whistler, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec The image is a pair of pur- ple-tailed wasps in a Yin/Yang pose surrounded by an illustrat- ed frame consisting of markings you might find stamped on a bur -
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