the japonisme timeline

AN EVOLVING, SUBJECTIVE TIMELINE of JAPONISME

1788
utamaro produces his series on insects in the garden;

1803
issa writes haiku about plovers

1831

hokusai paints 'the great wave' as part of '36 views of mt fuji';

1853
U.S. Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry sails into Tokyo Bay, opening Japan to the West.;

1855
walt whitman's 'leaves of grass' is published;

1856
felix bracquemond discovers hokusai's manga at his printer's shop.;

1857
hiroshige produces plum tree print.;

1859
Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, published.;

1863
whistler discovers japanese prints in london and becomes an emissary for japonisme in europe;

1864
whistler paints a friend in a kimono looking at japanese prints

1867
paris universal exposition introduces japanese art more widely to the west

1868
manet paints zola with japanese prints on his wall

1870
monet discovers japanese prints in holland;

1874
first impressionist exhibition in paris

1875
Morris & Co. established, promoting arts and crafts movement.

1876
monet paints his wife in a red kimono

1877
morse goes to japan and discovers japanese pottery

1878
whistler sues ruskin

1879
Thomas Edison demonstrates the electric light.;

1883
monet moves to giverny and begins to create the japanese garden he will paint for the rest of his life.

1885

gilbert and sullivan produce the mikado;
yoshitoshi begins moon series;

1886
sargent paints 'carnation, lily, lily, rose';
john la farge visits japan;
van gogh first sees japanese prints.

1887
van gogh paints hiroshige's plum tree print;
pierre loti writes 'madame chrysantheme'

1888
s. bing starts magazine 'artistic japan' to foster interest in japanese arts and crafts.;
Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society founded in London.

1890
van gogh dies;
lafcadio hearn moves to japan.

1891
arthur wesley dow establishes his art school;
first lautrec music-hall posters;
mary cassatt completes her mother & child prints, inspired by those of utamaro;

1892
Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company established.;

1893
munch paints 'the scream';
Aubrey Beardsley design published in the first issue of the magazine The Studio.;

1894
mucha's first art nouveau poster, gismonda with sarah bernhardt;

1895
S. Bing opens his gallery/shop L'Art Nouveau.

1898
john luther long writes short story 'madam butterfly' based on loti's 1887 novel;

mackintosh begins his school in glasgow;

1899
René Lalique designs Dragonfly woman corsage ornament;

1900
Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, published.;

1901
lautrec dies; gauguin dies;
Queen Victoria dies;
stickley starts the craftsman magazine.

1902
riviere produces set of prints '36 views of the eiffel tower' based on hokusai's '36 views' series; note that the tower is almost always shown with no top, so it resembles fuji.

1903
whistler dies;
the wiener werkstatte is founded.

(i'll continue to work on this, only re-publishing after significant changes. it seems, i'm noticing how the year 1900 really did seem an important marking point. i'm going to start part II of this timeline when i feel satisfied enough -- for the moment -- with part I. I'll reproduce the items from 1900 on in that topic.