Eastern art has multifaceted influences on Western artistic developments from the 19th century onward. Beginning with the Western fascination with the “Orient”, explores how Western artists often created exotic and romantic images based on their own ideas, which sometimes led to stereotypes in painting.The second section focuses on Japonisme, analyzing how the visual language of Japanese ukiyo-e prints, with their asymmetrical compositions, flat color planes, and decorative motifs, inspired Impressionist artists such as Claude Monet and Vincent Van Gogh. The third part investigates how the simplified forms, floating perspectives, and conceptual spatial frameworks derived from East Asian visual traditions contributed to the radical rethinking of pictorial space in early 20th-century Cubism. By tracing these cross-cultural encounters, the essay argues that Oriental art not only served as a source of aesthetic novelty but also catalyzed major paradigm shifts in how the Western world conceptualized and represented reality in art.

Junting Wei. The Influences of Eastern Art on Western Art from the 19th Century to Early 20th Century. Frontiers in Art Research (2025), Vol. 7, Issue 5: 32-40. https://doi.org/10.25236/FAR.2025.070505.

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