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How Japanese wood block prints changed the face of art and the Art Nouveau poster. It would be difficult to look back on modern day art history and not see the influence of the Japanese wood block print. After all, art history in general is nothing more then the domino effect of borrowed ideas, flowing in both directions, influencing everything in its path. Japanese Ukiyo-e artists’ like Kitagawa Utamaro, Katsushika Hokusai, and Ando Hiroshige, with their woodblock prints of everyday life, changed the face of art history forever. There simple command of color, simplification of form, broad color fields, and the shear power of their