Circulation of Technology
Circulation of Technology
In 1853, Japan began to open up their international trading; ending their isolation from the rest of the world. This released a huge flow of Japanese technology and goods to the Western world. Silk, horticulture design, Japanese print, fan, and dress are some of the technologies that were introduced to the West. Art markets and society already had a craving curiosity to foreign goods from Asian and the Ottoman Empire with collectors waiting for the next new thing to prove their status. During the 19th century orientalism switches from the Chinese and Turkish orientalism we saw in the 18th century to Japanese were artists surrounded their subjects in a whirl of Japanese goods. Artists would obtain huge collection of Japanese objects and use them as signs of their cultural knowledge and luxury lifestyles in their artwork. Some artists also gained inspiration from the Japanese gardens and Monet even designed his own Japanese garden to use as subject matter for his artwork.
A domestic technology that was heavily influential at the time was the emergence of photography. Now that photos began to circulate through the hands of people in the 19th century, artists were having to compete with the photographs. Gerome was among one of these painters that adapted a hyper realistic style to out do any photos that were being produced at the time.
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