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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 4497077, member: 2844&quot;]I think charlie&#039;s charming watercolour is of a city or fortress. Indian/Pakistani villages don&#039;t have city walls or gates.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Orientalist painters are Western artists who painted &#039;the Orient&#039;. Some of them had a romantic view of what they perceived to be Oriental subject, but many actually travelled and painted what they saw.</p><p>Like my favourite Dutch Orientalist artist Marius Bauer who made this etching, &quot;A Bazaar in Damascus&quot;:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]392917[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Marius Bauer travelled in North Africa, Western and Southern Asia and Southeast Asia (Indonesia). He sketched and painted what he saw through Western eyes and using Western techniques, but never romanticised or eroticised what he saw.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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