Le Japon artistique : documents d'art et d'industrie. Vol 1
Le Japon artistique is a French-language art periodical volume of Japanese decorative arts and industry, assembled by Siegfried Bing and published in Paris in 1891 for collectors and European designers. Its pages reproduce Japanese woodblock prints and drawings, including a mountain landscape with cranes in pale teal and ochre, and a bird on a branch with willow sprays set against text. A designer might take from them the economy of ink line, the flat tonal blocks of colour, and the asymmetric placement of motifs against open paper.
