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It is only mildly entertaining to note the increased intensity of color in Canadian painting, more like our own in key, and the distressing effect of occidentalism on Indian Art.

From Time Magazine Archive

While the royal family does occasionally come out from behind its chrysanthemum curtain�Empress Nagako was recently permitted to exhibit her water-colors�such decadent occidentalism as kissing in public was unprecedented.

From Time Magazine Archive