In 1853, after the Japanese ports restarted to trade with the West, ukiyo-e wood block print had transformed Post- Impressionist and Impressionist art. With the new style form of art thriving the European borders in the nineteenth century, shows people’s daily life had created the worldwide attention to the new form of art. This dissertation establishes an aspects and culturally influential japonisme to the three female artists and one of them is, Mary Cassatt, especially how the ukiyo-e prints had caught her attention.
With the new form of Japanese arts arriving in the nineteenth century, many impressionist artists were intrigued and inspired by the unique pattern and concepts of space. It was during the exhibition at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts that Cassatt was intrigued by the print and was impressed by it she wrote to her friend, “You who want to make color prints wouldn’t dream of anything more beautiful. I dream of doing it myself and can’t think of anything else but color on copper. P.S. You must see the Japanese, come as soon as you can.” [] With the changes and influences during Cassatt’s life since the impressionist,
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In Cassatt’s print the viewers can see the similarities from Ukifune of the Kanaya Quarter: First Designs of the Young Plants (Image2) in The Fitting by Cassatt (Image1). From her series ten color prints collection, which are considered among the landmarks of the aesthetic called “Japonisme” the viewers can see the big influence it had on her work The Fitting, from the woman wearing elegant white dress, standing up in front of the mirror, and looking over her right shoulder and down at the other woman wearing a brown dress sitting down and catering her dress to the bold and flat print background of the art