What are some of the influences of non-Western cultures (Oceania, Africa, and Japan) on Western art and design?

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At the end of the nineteenth century, artists became inspired and influenced by the arts of other cultures. Japanese woodblock prints entered Europe along with Asian trade goods in the late nineteenth century. Produced in great numbers between 1660 and 1860, and sold as popular souvenirs, the prints feature flat, unmodulated colors, undulating lines, and compositions that are cropped or contain large areas of empty space. Their daring use of negative spaceand startling perspective was often the consequence of unusual vantage points, such as the bird's-eye view. Japanese landscape prints, such as those by Katsushika Hokusai, featured bold contrasts and decorative arrangements of abstract shapes and colors, aesthetics that would come to greatly influence the art of Van Gogh and Gauguin. Japanese prints also had an immediate impact on fine and commercial art, including the art of the lithographic poster, such as those by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
The fierce woodcarvings of Oceania were embellished with elaborate patterns of spirals and scrolls, designs that also appeared in Oceanic tattoo culture. The serpentine patterns of Oceania tattoos and woodcarvings appear in the paintings of Paul and in the many prints and sculptures that he produced during his stay in Tahiti.
The 1889 World's Fair, held in Paris, contributed to the European infatuation with non-Western culture which brought to public view the arts of Asia, Africa, and Oceania. At the event the composer Debussy was deeply influenced by the music of Bali in Indonesia. He experimented with nontraditional kinds of harmony, such as the five-tone scale found in East Asian music.