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[1] [2] The art histories of Asia and Europe are greatly intertwined, with Asian art greatly influencing European art, and vice versa; the cultures mixed through methods such as the Silk Road transmission of art, the cultural exchange of the Age of Discovery and colonization, and through the internet and modern globalization.
Description: A pair of Guanyin statues in gilt bronze, that are thought to have been made between 650 and 800 AD. These statues are quite slender, and already start showing the hourglass-shaped, somewhat feminized bodies that would become more pronounced over the years.
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Art Institute of Chicago: United States Chicago, Illinois 35,000 [4] Arthur M. Sackler Museum: United States Cambridge, Massachusetts 16,000 [5] Asia and Pacific Museum: Poland Warsaw Asian Art Museum of San Francisco: United States San Francisco, California 18,000 [6] Asian Civilisations Museum: Singapore Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art ...
Vladimir Grigoryevich Tretchikoff (Владимир Григорьевич Третчиков, 26 December [O.S. 13 December] 1913, Petropavlovsk, Russian Empire, now Petropavl in Kazakhstan [1] – 26 August 2006, Cape Town, South Africa) was an artist whose painting Chinese Girl, popularly known as The Green Lady, is one of the best-selling art prints of the twentieth century.
Chinese art : a guide to motifs and visual imagery. Boston, US: Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4629-0689-5. OCLC 893707208. Williams, Charles (2006). Chinese symbolism and art motifs : a comprehensive handbook on symbolism in Chinese art through the ages. New York: Tuttle Pub. ISBN 978-1-4629-0314-6. OCLC 782879753
The years of 1990–2000 were times for the establishment of contemporary arts. In the region, many important international exhibitions are taking place, Central Asian art is represented in European and American museums, and the Central Asian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale has been organized since 2005.
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