Styles

Impressionism

Mid-19th-century French painting that broke from academic tradition with loose brushwork, light-soaked color, and scenes of modern life. Monet, Renoir, Degas, and Manet led a movement that still defines how we picture leisure, gardens, and afternoons in Paris.

Post-Impressionism

The generation after the Impressionists pushed color and emotion further. Van Gogh's swirling skies and Cézanne's geometric volumes laid the groundwork for modern art while remaining endlessly reproducible on a wall.

Ukiyo-e

Edo-period Japanese woodblock prints — "pictures of the floating world." Hokusai's Great Wave and Hiroshige's road series introduced flat color, decisive line, and bold composition that reshaped Western art a century later.

Shin-hanga

The early-20th-century revival of Japanese woodblock printmaking. Hashiguchi Goyō, Takahashi Shōtei, and others combined ukiyo-e technique with Western perspective and mood, producing serene landscapes and refined portraits.

Rinpa

A Japanese decorative tradition centered on lyrical pattern and gold. Kamisaka Sekka's early-modern Rinpa designs distill seasonal motifs — irises, waves, plum — into prints that read as both ancient and graphic.

Dutch Golden Age

17th-century Holland's flowering of painting: Vermeer's quiet interiors, Rembrandt's light, and the still-lifes that defined the genre. Domestic, luminous, and deeply rewarding at print scale.

Art Nouveau

Turn-of-the-century decorative art built on flowing line and natural form. Klimt's gold-leafed portraits remain the most-recognized image of the movement.