Word: exoticisms
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But Matisse's pictorial motives differed from those of all European artists who had visited "the Orient" before. French painters from the 1830s on, starting with Eugene Delacroix, had gone there in search of the picturesque, the exotic, the ready-made subject: mosques and Riffian horsemen, camels and harem slaves...
But Matisse was intensely interested in Muslim decorative arts, and it was their intrinsic style, not their use as exotic props, that affected him. He had been to Algeria in 1906. In 1910 he was bowled over by an exhibition of the art of Islam in Munich and by a...
Tiffany trained as a painter; several of his mediocre oils are included in the show, testament more to his sense of composition than his skill with a brush. Influenced by the supple lines and Asian touches of the art nouveau movement, he did better with fabric and furniture. As an...
The best hope for our future depends on rescuing the best of our past -- and on jettisoning the worst. As an imperial power, Russia consolidated under its rule an enormous expanse of territory. Many corners of the empire were conquered in bloody wars. But Russia was also an ethnically and...
There is, of course, some value to this. New ages need new forms, and addressing today's young in sentences of Jamesian complexity would be about as helpful as talking to them in Middle English. Rhetoric, in any case, is no less manipulative than technology, and no less formulaic. Though...