At a time when few people could travel outside their own countries, artists began to borrow from the art of Japan, China and the Orient, incorporating it into their works and bringing about a new style in architecture, painting, textiles, furniture and interior design. Most famously, artists such as Monet, Degas and Whistler included Asian design into their paintings. When Van Goh painted Portrait du Père Tanguy, he reproduced some of his own collection of Japanese prints into the backround. Fascinated with the art of Asia, and a specialist in the study of Japanese art and artis