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In art history, literature, and cultural studies, Orientalism is the imitation or depiction of aspects of the Eastern world (or "Orient") by writers, designers, and artists from the Western world. Orientalist painting, particularly of West Asia and North Africa, was one of the many specialties of 19th-century academic art, and Western literature was…
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orientalism | is a | imitation or depiction of aspects of the Eastern world | 0.90 | text |
| Gustav Bauernfeint | instance of | the realists who carefully painted what they observed | 0.80 | text |
| Eugène Delacroix | instance of | French painters | 0.80 | text |
| Juan González de Mendoza idealized Asian religious | instance of | describing how missionary ethnographers | 0.80 | text |
| ethical life | instance of | describing how missionary ethnographers | 0.80 | text |
| constructing an admired | instance of | describing how missionary ethnographers | 0.80 | text |
| Claude Monet | instance of | many modern French artists | 0.80 | text |
| Edgar Degas were influenced by the Japanese style | instance of | many modern French artists | 0.80 | text |
| Eugène Delacroix | instance of | French artists | 0.80 | text |
| Jean-Léon Gérôme | instance of | French artists | 0.80 | text |
| Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres painted many works depicting Islamic culture | instance of | French artists | 0.80 | text |
| often including lounging odalisques | instance of | French artists | 0.80 | text |
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