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Abstract
This section is mainly investigating the influence of Theosophy on American arti the various influences that could be inherited in a multi-cultural county. And Theosophy was mainly related to eastern religions, the following pages would be fo influence of the eastern traditions through different main figures on art in the Unit America in the twentieth century. Accordingly it would be consider if there is a clear i Theosophy on American art.
The interest of American artists in the east in general and in Japan in particular sta , late 1850s, as it started to developed within intellectual circles in Boston, especial the communities of Harvard University, the Unitarians, and the transcenden French Japonisme as well had a great influence in growing that interest. One of the characters introducing such tradition was the artist and Japanese art collector Jo (1835-1910), who lived in New York. He was mainly inspired in his own paintings onwards by Japanese art objects that were available in America at that time, such as prints, Japanese ink paintings, gold screens and porcelain.57
The philosopher Ernest Fenol/osa (1853-1908) also became an important focus for artists in the late nineteenth and the twentieth Century. As he collected a large col art objects in Japan, Fenol/osa’s own goal was: the unity between East and West, a he chose his strategy to be through ’art education’, which required organizing exhi Japanese art and make the American public aware with that form of aesthetics. believed, could become universal.58
After Fenol/osa, Arthur Wesley Dow (1857-1922) the American artist and art converted the former’s ideas on art education into a practical method in h Composition, A Series of Exercises Selected from a New System of Art Education, published in 1899. In this book he introduced the principles of Japanese painting to artists. Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) was one of the several artists that reacted dl Fenol/osa’s and Dow’s work. She had also read Fenol/osa’s life work Epochs of Chi Japanese Art, and she began experimenting with the Japanese Sumi-e technique arc time.59
Moreover, Transcendentalism had also played a role in the American culture sl nineteenth century, as the Leading Transcendentalists like Henry David Thoreau, Ralp Emerson and Walt Whitman were especially interested in the Buddhism and Hinduism According to the Art Historian David Anfam - an expert in the field of Abstract Express
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the influence of the Transcendentalists was still visible in the American avant-garde