Cross-Cultural Dialogue
Art that joins forms, techniques or imagery from different cultural traditions into something new.
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Cross-cultural dialogue happens when artists absorb forms, techniques or imagery from traditions other than their own and make something neither source would have produced alone. It is far older than globalisation. Sculptors in Gandhara, in present-day Pakistan and Afghanistan, gave the Buddha drapery and features drawn from Greco-Roman models in the first centuries AD, and the Italian Jesuit Giuseppe Castiglione painted for Qing emperors in a hybrid of European shading and Chinese brushwork.
The traffic has run in every direction. Vincent van Gogh copied prints by Utagawa Hiroshige in oil in 1887, while Kobayashi Kiyochika brought Western effects of gaslight and dusk into Tokyo woodblocks. Ibrahim El-Salahi joined Arabic calligraphy and Sudanese motifs to modernist abstraction, and Chiura Obata painted Yosemite in the Japanese ink tradition. Shirin Neshat inscribes Persian script over photographs, and Zhang Hongtu recasts Chinese landscape painting in the brushwork of Paul Cézanne and Van Gogh.
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Engaged with Traditional Chinese Art
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Engaged with Traditional Japanese Art
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