Anna's question was: "Did the European style of the art nouveau movement take anything more from the ukiyo-e style than the organic lines and shapes?"Excellent question Anna. According to the research I got. the European style adopted Ukiyo-e style's of lines and shapes, but what they (French mostly) were most fascinated with was Ukiyo-e's compositional freedom in placing the subject off-centre(sharpened images), the lack of perspective and shadow, and flat areas of strong color. For example, all those things "sharpening, shadow, bold colors; they can all be seen in an immitation/homage painting by Van Gough to the Japanese artist Hiroshige:
Horishige's "Thunderstorm at Ohashive"- top
Van Gogh's untitled immitation- bottom
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