Orientalists
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Orientalist period
During these years Gaudí completed a series of works with a distinctly oriental flavour, inspired by the art of the Middle and Far East (India, Persia, Japan), as well as Islamic-Hispanic art, mainly Mudejar and Nazari.
In 1879 he became a pupil of Jean-François Portaels, director of the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, whose Orientalist works he admired. Van Rysselberghe first exhibited at the Salon in Brussels in 1881.
Exhibiting societies are the Societe des artistes independants, Societe des orientalistes, and Salon des pastellistes. Germany.
The Orientalist movement began when artists began painting their experiences as they traveled to countries such as Turkey, Persia, Iraq, Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, Arabia, and North Africa.
Orientalists could display nude alegorical figures in lush exotic settings without reproach. An odalisque, or harem concubine was a popular subject.
Odalisque - A female slave or concubine in the harems of the Middle East The odalisque was a favorite subject of nineteenth century. European artists, sometimes called orientalists, ...
Ingres's excursions into this genre are far removed from the productions of contemporary orientalist painters who depict 'images of womanhood in which remote and beautiful ladies, lost in some cold and vacant reverie, ...
another important genre in Romanticism: leading exponents include: Francisco Goya (1746-1828) Henry Fuseli (1741-1825), James Barry (1741-1806), Theodore Gericault (1791-1824) and Eugene Delacroix (1798-63), as well as later Orientalists, ...
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