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The Pocket Universal Principles of Art
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The Pocket Universal Principles of Art

by John A Parks
December 2017
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
208 pages
3h 39m
English
Rockport Publishers
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023 Cross-Cultural Fertilization

Art evolves and changes when the works of one culture become available to another.

• In the 1850s, when Japan was opened to European traders, an influx of Japanese prints and artifacts fueled a revolution in design and painting. Vincent van Gogh was directly influenced by Japanese prints, of which he had a large collection.

• At the close of the nineteenth century, an expanded flow of artifacts from Africa and the Pacific influenced Picasso and many other artists, inspiring a taste for simplified, or even brutal, forms.

• Cross-cultural flow is rarely one-way. Japanese printmaking was heavily influenced by European art in the second half of the nineteenth century. Conventions, such as perspective, were introduced, ...

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ISBN: 9781631595431