Non-Western art
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Non-Western art is a relative newcomer to the art historical canon. Recent revisions of the semantic division between art and artifact have recast objects created in non-Western cultures in more aesthetic terms. Relative to those studying Ancient Rome or the Italian Renaissance, scholars specializing in Africa, the Americas and Asia are a growing minority.
African art's influence on Western art
At the start of the 20th century, artists like Picasso, Matisse, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin and Modigliani became aware of, and were inspired by, African art. In a situation where the established avant garde was straining against the constraints imposed by serving the world of appearances, African art demonstrated the power of supremely well organised forms; produced not only by responding to the faculty of sight, but also and often primarily, the faculty of imagination, emotion and mystical and religious experience. These artists saw in African art a formal perfection and sophistication unified with phenomenal expressive power.
By region
See also
- Monkeys' Right to Paint (1994) by Bedri Baykam
- Occidentalism
- Japonisme
- Primitive art
- Primitivism
- African art's influence on Western art
- Picasso's African Period
- Cultural appropriation in western music
- Western art
- World art
- Subaltern (postcolonialism)
- Tribal art