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Oiran (The Courtesan)<\/em><\/h2>\n

Painted in the summer and autumn of 1887, Oiran<\/em>, also known as The Courtesan<\/em>, is an image of a Japanese woman copied by Van Gogh from a print by Keisai Eisen which was on the cover of the May 1886 Paris Illustr\u00e9, a magazine that featured an article about Japan.\u00a0 Van Gogh\u2019s copy differs from the original in several significant ways.<\/p>\n

Van Gogh used transparent paper and traced the woman from the cover of the magazine and then created a grid over her so that he could later enlarge and transfer the image to a canvas.\u00a0 The motifs around the woman, the water landscape, bamboo canes, water lilies, frogs, cranes, and a boat, are copies of images from other Japanese prints in Van Gogh\u2019s own collection.\u00a0 The original image had a blooming cherry branch, a symbol of Japan, surrounding the woman but Van Gogh left that out.\u00a0 Instead he added a new element, he transformed the woman from merely a magnificently dressed woman, to a courtesan, or prostitute.\u00a0 He expresses this by painting the images of cranes and frogs.\u00a0 The French words for cranes (grues), and for frogs (grenouilles), were also used to refer to a woman in the profession.<\/p>\n

In The Courtesan<\/em>, we see an example of the Japanese cropping style Van Gogh began to experiment with.\u00a0 Eisen\u2019s print shows the figure cropped on the right of the painting, Van Gogh had transposed the figure and cropped on the left of the painting.\u00a0 We see Van Gogh\u2019s attraction to bright, bold colors and their relationship to form as he moved away from his typical dashes and dots with the brush to larger areas of bright color.\u00a0 He intensified the colors from the light pastels and corals in the original version to rich, bold, yellows, blues, greens and reds.<\/p>\n

In Van Gogh\u2019s later works, we continue to see the Japanese influence.\u00a0 The strong lines, typical of Japanese woodblocks, as well as color contrasts and his compositional structure all suggest the influence of Japanese art and culture on his life.<\/p>\n

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