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- Western painting
  The 20th century
  The art of supposedly “primitive” peoples had a special appeal in the early years of the 20th century. Gauguin, who lived in Tahiti in his last years, proved prophetic not only in the forms he adopted but in the spirit of his approach. Maurice de Vlaminck and André Derain,…
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  The art of supposedly “primitive” peoples had a special appeal in the early years of the 20th century. Gauguin, who lived in Tahiti in his last years, proved prophetic not only in the forms he adopted but in the spirit of his approach. Maurice de Vlaminck and André Derain,…
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- interior design
  Primitive peoples
  Although the practices of present-day primitive peoples sometimes shed light on the historical origins of those practices, there is too little art and decoration in such communities today to illuminate the beginnings of interior decoration. No clear-cut progressions of styles, like those that…
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  Although the practices of present-day primitive peoples sometimes shed light on the historical origins of those practices, there is too little art and decoration in such communities today to illuminate the beginnings of interior decoration. No clear-cut progressions of styles, like those that…
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