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“East Meets West” and I wrote a book about it!

Hello Everyone! Thanks for stopping by my page 🙂 I won’t often post here, but today I have good news: my book, East Meets West: How 36 Views Influenced Impressionism, is now available for purchase as a Kindle e-book or as a paperback.

In this book, my art-historical research lens focuses on Japanisme, the 19th century wave of Japanophilia that took over France, thanks to the island nation opening its ports for international trade. Specifically, it focuses its gaze a few decades earlier, on Hokusai’s Thirty-Six Views of Mt. Fuji (c. 1830-2), to analyze how this particular series successfully addressed Japanese ambivalence towards the West both in medium and composition. I also argue that this print series influenced the likes of Whistler and Monet to kick-start impressionism.

So it’s a lot! But hopefully engaging and coherent along the way 😀

I’ve written more about the subject at INKBRUSHMOOD, an art-historical blog where I occasionally write about ukiyo-e, and at Ediciones Pluma Verde, a small publisher of poetry, artbooks, fiction and non-fiction.

I’d love to get reviews on this! If you are interested in a free book, e-mail me at hello@robmarielopez.com and I will send you a copy for review.

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Update! (July 5th, 2026)

Some of my e-books are on sale over at Smashwords—by sale, of course, I mean that they’re free! 😀 Sale is for July only, so here are some links to get started:

📖 East Meets West: How 36 Views Influenced Impressionism —> https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/2056728

📖 Tropiflexión —> https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1603246

📖 Cineterapia: Película Cómo Metáfora —> https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1603246

Of course, these books are also available for the Kindle at less than $10! So you might want to check that out as well 🙂

Art now at Galería Pluma Verde

Greetings Everyone! Happy end of March! I was just thinking about how March always seems so endless to me. Today feels like March 32!

Anywho, I bear happy tidings. Those who know me in some capacity know that I’ve always dabbled in the arts. One of my dreams was to become a professional graphic designer, and while I was unable to pursue it after high school (though I spent many a teenage hour on Paint Shop Pro :D), I was able to find my way back to it in recent years, finally earning a credential in Graphic Art and Design from Rio Hondo College in 2022.

Well, while graphic design is not art, it certainly helped with the way that I approached my expressive-type of art. After a year of applied, dedicated study (and another in art history), I felt a bit more confident in embracing the style of art that became synonymous with Wind—that part of me that struggles with calling herself an artist but who likes to create art just the same.

Wind Ma, Mantis (or “After Enlightenment”), 2024, acrylic, metal and gesso on
wood panel, 9.5” x 9.5”. Galería Pluma Verde.

While my works currently span styles and mediums, I’m especially fond of the paintings section, which as of now has five works available for sale. Mostly, I’d like for them to find their “forever homes,” if you will. I currently live in LA, but who knows what tomorrow will bring. To my amazement, I’ve somehow amassed a small collection of Wind paintings, which are now ready to find their way out into the great wide world, into the lively walls of a welcoming abode.

Anywho! Let us see what this crazy venture brings! 😀 More paintings should become available for sale within the next couple of weeks,
so stay tuned.

To learn more about Wind at Galería Pluma Verde:

https://edicionesplumaverde.com/pinturas-x-wind/

If you’d like to reach out about a work, you can e-mail me at:

hello@robmarielopez.com.

Cheers! 🥂

-RL

Happy Spring!

“Hello Spring!” Prints available at pluma-verde.framer.art.

Happy Spring! At least, that’s what the calendar tells me today. With the way that this heat wave is going, you would think that we’re right in the middle of a brutal August!

However, Spring it is, and grateful we are for the shift away from the cold nights of Winter 🙂 (Though it’s easy to miss the natural A/C of February weather).

Anywho! I was so looking forward to Spring this year, that I made—and finally launched!—a commemorative print through pluma-verde.framer.art.

“Oh, interesting!,” you might say. “And why Pluma Verde and not, say, ‘robmarie-lopez.framer.art’?” You might ask. Well, thank you for asking, dear reader! Actually, I originally set up this account as a little shop for the art featured in my published books—or, the books published through my small indie editorial, Ediciones Pluma Verde. The selection was mostly in Spanish until a few days ago, when I finally published ARTEFRECUENCIA, a multilingual arts and letters magazine with a few illustrated short stories and other cool stuff.

The cover for ARTEFRECUENCIA Issue #1, available as a download for the Kindle.
A sample is available for preview at Ediciones Pluma Verde. More to follow!

In light of the fact that there’s a lot of cool stuff that I’d like to share on Framer, the selection has slowly expanded to include non-book related art—which is a plus! Working with art for publication has given me the opportunity to remix works, create new ones, and engage with more creative experimentation overall.

So check out ARTEFRECUENCIA and pluma-verde.framer.art if you can, and let me know what you think in the comments below! You can also say hello@robmarielopez.com.