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Exoticism (from 'exotic') is a trend in art
Art

Art is the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way that appeals to the senses or emotions. It encompasses a diverse range of human activities, creations, and modes of expression, including music and literature....
 and design
Design

Design is used both as a noun and a verb. The term is often tied to the various applied arts and engineering . As a verb, "to design" refers to the process of originating and planning for a product, structure, system, or component with intention....
, influenced by some ethnic groups or civilizations since the late 19th-century. In music
Music

Music is an art form whose media is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics , and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture ....
 exoticism is a genre in which the rhythms, melodies, or instrumentation are designed to evoke the atmosphere of far-off lands or ancient times (e.g. Ravel's
Maurice Ravel

Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer and pianist of Impressionist music known especially for the subtlety, richness, and poignancy of his melodies, orchestral and instrumental Texture and effects....
 Daphnis et Chloé
Daphnis et Chloé

Daphnis et Chlo? is a ballet with music by Maurice Ravel. Ravel described it as a "symphonie chor?ographique" . The scenario was adapted by Michel Fokine from an Daphnis and Chloe by the Greece writer Longus thought to date from around the 3rd century AD....
 and Tzigane for Violin and Orchestra, Debussy's
Claude Debussy

Achille-Claude Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he is considered one of the most prominent figures working within the field of Impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions....
 Syrinx for Flute Solo or Rimsky-Korsakov's
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov , also Nikolay, Nicolai, and Rimsky-Korsakoff, was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as "The Five." Noted particularly for a predilection for folk and fairy-tale subjects as well as his extraordinary skill in orchestration, his best known orchestral compositions...
 Capriccio espagnol
Capriccio espagnol

Capriccio Espagnol, Opus number. 34, is the common Western title for an orchestral work based on Spain melodies and written by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1887....
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Exoticism (from 'exotic') is a trend in art
Art

Art is the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way that appeals to the senses or emotions. It encompasses a diverse range of human activities, creations, and modes of expression, including music and literature....
 and design
Design

Design is used both as a noun and a verb. The term is often tied to the various applied arts and engineering . As a verb, "to design" refers to the process of originating and planning for a product, structure, system, or component with intention....
, influenced by some ethnic groups or civilizations since the late 19th-century. In music
Music

Music is an art form whose media is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics , and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture ....
 exoticism is a genre in which the rhythms, melodies, or instrumentation are designed to evoke the atmosphere of far-off lands or ancient times (e.g. Ravel's
Maurice Ravel

Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer and pianist of Impressionist music known especially for the subtlety, richness, and poignancy of his melodies, orchestral and instrumental Texture and effects....
 Daphnis et Chloé
Daphnis et Chloé

Daphnis et Chlo? is a ballet with music by Maurice Ravel. Ravel described it as a "symphonie chor?ographique" . The scenario was adapted by Michel Fokine from an Daphnis and Chloe by the Greece writer Longus thought to date from around the 3rd century AD....
 and Tzigane for Violin and Orchestra, Debussy's
Claude Debussy

Achille-Claude Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he is considered one of the most prominent figures working within the field of Impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions....
 Syrinx for Flute Solo or Rimsky-Korsakov's
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov , also Nikolay, Nicolai, and Rimsky-Korsakoff, was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as "The Five." Noted particularly for a predilection for folk and fairy-tale subjects as well as his extraordinary skill in orchestration, his best known orchestral compositions...
 Capriccio espagnol
Capriccio espagnol

Capriccio Espagnol, Opus number. 34, is the common Western title for an orchestral work based on Spain melodies and written by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1887....
). Like orientalist subjects in 19th century painting, exoticism in the decorative arts and interior decoration was associated with fantasies of opulence.

Exoticism, by definition, is "the charm of the unfamiliar." Scholar Alden Jones defines exoticism in art
Art

Art is the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way that appeals to the senses or emotions. It encompasses a diverse range of human activities, creations, and modes of expression, including music and literature....
 and literature
Literature

Literature is the art of written works. Literally translated, the word means "acquaintance with letters" . In Western culture the most basic written literary types include fiction and non-fiction....
 as the representation of one culture for consumption by another. An archetypical example is the artist and writer Paul Gauguin
Paul Gauguin

Eug?ne Henri Paul Gauguin was a leading Post-Impressionism Painting. His bold experimentation with coloring led directly to the Synthetism style of modern art while his expression of the inherent meaning of the subjects in his paintings, under the influence of the cloisonnist style, paved the way to Primitivism and the return to the pastoral...
 and his representations of Tahitian people and landscapes for a French audience.

See also

  • Orientalism
    Orientalism

    Orientalism refers to the imitation or depiction of aspects of Eastern cultures in the West by writers, designers and artists, and can also refer to a sympathetic stance towards the region by a writer or other person....
  • Other
    Other

    The Other or constitutive other is a key concept in continental philosophy, opposed to the identity . It refers, or attempts to refer, to that which is 'other' than the concept being considered....


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