Art example essay topic

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The western world; in the art sense has tried and sometimes successfully integrated parts of other techniques and styles of artwork. Due to the reason that the. ".. [w] estern world remained for centuries an open society, ready to absorb" (Wittkower, R, 1989: 19) arts and theatrical arts. Due to this open society the west did not create they own art but has incorporated many other styles and techniques; and named this combination their own. A main cause of this would be the crusaders that explored the east which "in the eleventh and twelfth centuries they returned home, laden with the spoils of the orient".

(1989: 20) The west had become obsessed with art from other countries instead of trying to create they own. The artists that were trying to rise at this time had recognise this obsession; and knowing that their art will not be recognise as art at that point in time tried to incorporate the styles into their own work but were cast aside for being fakes and copies. Although it was not just the arts; where obsession just caught artists but the architects were also induced. The western architects now with its new "senses of freshness of individual observation that opened the way to Gothic style". (1989: 27).