印象主义的画家们在艺术表现上,确实曾受过东方艺术的影响,因为这仅仅是在色彩关系上,所以可能不容易被人们所觉察,或者不以为然。但是自从德加、高更、梵高出现以后,他们追求装饰风,逐渐偏离了西方绘画传统的轨道,因而东方艺术的强烈影响是显而易见的。到十九世纪末,“学习东方”、追求装饰风,形成了一个重要的时代潮流,由于种种原因,欧洲画家接触“东方”,主要是直接研究日本艺术,特别是浮世绘艺术,对中国艺术 Impressionist painters have indeed been influenced by Eastern art in their artistic expression because it is merely a matter of color and may not be perceptible or disagreeable to the public. However, since Degas, Gauguin and Van Gogh appeared, they sought the decorative style and gradually deviated from the tradition of western painting. Therefore, the strong influence of oriental art is obvious. By the end of the nineteenth century, “learning from the east” and pursuing the decorative style formed an important trend of the times. For various reasons, European painters came into contact with the “East,” mainly studying Japanese art, especially ukiyoe art,