Alteridade artística no século XIX

a assimilação ocidental da arte japonesa

Abstract

This article attempts to clarify and discuss the relations between Modem Art and the Japanese art, in the last decades of XIX century. The intent is to show how, in contrast to the aesthetic and ways of representation of the classical and romantic arts, one of the points of rupture of several Occidental artists, which can be yet classified as modems, was precisely a new posture in relation to the Art of the other peoples, considering that, in this aspect, the assimilation of the Japanese art would had an exemplary and transformer importance for the renovation ofthe modem Occidental art since the epoch of the impressionists painters. In this sense, it is showed how, working with an assimilation of alterities as the Japanese, the modern Occidental artists had success in recreate his own art.