Monet & Japan Haneda Masashi Because sometimes it’s OK not

Because sometimes it’s OK not to follow the herd

is no longer a utopian dream

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Monet & Japan Haneda Masashi Because sometimes it’s OK notMonet never traveled to Japan, but he surrounded himself with a large collection of Japanese woodblock prints. Like a number of other Parisians, he first collected Japanese prints in the 1860s. He shared the European view of Japanese culture as supremely artistic, shaped by the refined aesthetic tastes of its people, in harmony with its legendary beauty. As early as the 1870s, critics were writing about the influence of Japanese art on Monet's